“Chapter and Verse” nova je autobiografija Brucea Springsteena koja izlazi 23. septembra ove godine, uz istoimeni studijski album s osamnaest pjesama. Springsteen je otkrio sadržaj predgovora knjige koji možete pročitati u nastavku.
Inače album će sadržati pet neobjavljenih pjesama koje padaju u period od 1966-72 prije nego će Springsteen 1973. objaviti debi album ‘Greetings From Asbury Park NJ’. Te pjesme su: ‘Baby I’, ‘You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover’ Springsteenovog ranog benda The Castiles, zatim ‘Ballad Of Jesse James’ koju je uradio The Springsteen Band i solo numere ‘He’s Guilty (The Judge Song)’ i ‘Henry Boy’.
Predgovor:
“I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I. By twenty, no race-car-driving rebel, I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who “lie” in service of the truth . . . artists, with a small “a.” But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.
This book is both a continuation of that story and a search into its origins. I’ve taken as my parameters the events in my life I believe shaped that story and my performance work. One of the questions I’m asked over and over again by fans on the street is “How do you do it?” In the following pages I will try to shed a little light on how and, more important, why.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Survival Kit
DNA, natural ability, study of craft, development of and devotion to an aesthetic philosophy, naked desire for . . . fame? . . . love? . . . admiration? . . . attention? . . . women? . . . sex? . . . and oh, yeah . . . a buck. Then . . . if you want to take it all the way out to the end of the night, a furious fire in the hole that just . . . don’t . . . quit . . . burning.
These are some of the elements that will come in handy should you come face-to-face with eighty thousand (or eighty) screaming rock ‘n’ roll fans who are waiting for you to do your magic trick. Waiting for you to pull something out of your hat, out of thin air, out of this world, something that before the faithful were gathered here today was just a song-fueled rumor.
I am here to provide proof of life to that ever elusive, never completely believable “us.” That is my magic trick. And like all good magic tricks, it begins with a setup. So . . .”