Then the band came on and I think it was probably the best Rock band I’ve ever seen in my life for about half an hour,” David Bowie said. I thought he was sort of another Dylan copy when he came on and started his acoustic set. So he was the headliner act and Springsteen was sort of on as well. “I liked Biff Rose from the 60s and I found that he was playing in town. I was gonna leave, I went there to see Biff Rose.” David Bowie continued: Then he brought the band on about halfway through. He was playing on his own, he was just playing the piano. Even said that he thought that Springsteen’s group was the best one he saw at that moment in his life. He had told the same story in a conversation with WNEW-FM 102.7 back in 1986 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). As soon as the band came on, it was like a different performer and he was just marvelous.” He’d sit there with his guitar and be folky, have these slow philosophical raps in between the songs. I hated him as a solo artist, when he came on and did this Bob Dylan thing. He recalled that moment in an interview Musician magazine back in 1987. At the time, “The Boss” was the opening act of Biff Rose at Max’s Kansas City in New York. In the same year the American musician released his debut record. David Bowie said that Springsteen’s band was the best one he saw in his life at the timeĮven though he was touring and recording a lot in the early 70s, Bowie had the chance to watch Springsteen performing live in 1973. In 1990, he included a version for “Growin’ Up”, also from the American’s first album, on the re-release of the record “Pin-Ups”. King, Allan Clarke and The Knack.īut that wasn’t the only Springsteen song covered by Bowie. Besides Bowie, that record also had covers made by Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, Ben E. The track also was featured of Springsteen’s tribute album “One Step Up/ Two Steps Back”, released in 1997. Bowie covered two Springsteen songsĬuriously, Bowie had the chance to cover that track a few decades later, appearing for the first time on the box set “Sound + Vision” in 1989. Those two albums had multiple hits that became some of the most famous songs of his career. But his most recent records at the time were “Born To Run” (1975) and “Darkness on the Edge of Town” (1978). That really scared the living ones out of me,” David Bowie said.īowie noted in the interview with the radio station in 1979 that he wasn’t a big fan of what Springsteen was composing at the late 70s. It’s called ‘It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City’. It was ‘Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.’ and after I heard this track I never rode the subway again. “Here is a great writer and I don’t like what he is doing very much now. One of the songs that he choose was Springsteen’s “It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City” from his debut record “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” (1973). Back in 1979, the British artist was asked to list some of his favorite songs to be played on a radio show made available by Raised On Radio (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). The Bruce Springsteen song that David Bowie said he lovedīy the time Bruce Springsteen released his first album “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” (1973), Bowie already had five albums on his discography and was about to release the classic “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars”.Īlthough the kind of music the two artists made were not very similar most of the times, Bowie appreacited Springsteen and even praised him as a writer once. One of them was the legendary American musician Bruce Springsteen, that Bowie had a big respect and even said he was a great writer. Over the decades he talked about many of his peers and gave his opinion on their music.
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