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If anything, Springsteen's early climb to success found him advocating more fiercely and empathetically for the American working class.

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Over the course of those 50 years, Springsteen has won 20 GRAMMY Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and a Tony Award for his one-man show 'Springsteen on Broadway.' Though still one EMMY Award short of a full EGOT, he’s nonetheless made do with honors like the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to him in 2016 by President Barack Obama (with whom he would later host a podcast and write a New York Times bestselling book) and a planet - 23990 Springsteen - named in his honor.įrom his inauspicious start to his initial commercial peak in the 1980s, and through a career resurgence in the early 2000s, one of the Boss’ most remarkable achievements is that his songs have never seemed to lose their blue-collar everyman perspective. Fifty-seven Christmases later, in December 2021, Springsteen sold his fifty-year catalog of songs for a record-setting $550 million dollars. In 'The Wish,' a 1987 studio outtake eventually released on Tracks in 1998, Springsteen’s narrator traces his adult prosperity as The Boss back to a single childhood Christmas when his mother bought him a 'brand-new Japanese guitar.' The lyrics echo Springsteen’s real-life story of his own first electric guitar - a Japanese-made Kent, that he purchased for $70 in 1964 with the help of a loan his mother had taken out. 'I hate being called the boss,' Springsteen admitted in a 1999 biography. In a bit of amusing irony, it’s also a name that stands in complete contrast to his 50 year canon of songs from the perspective of working-class folks. If you knew nothing else about him there’s still a good chance you’d recognize Bruce Springsteen by the name 'The Boss.' The nickname predates his entire career as a recording artist, going back to his days as a teenage bandleader at the Jersey Shore.