Rating: 4/5
Review:
Great music, rather too much chat
Springsteen On Broadway is recorded from his live almost-one-man show
of monologue and stripped-back songs. It’s great in many ways;
Bruce is a great performer, his long, personal spoken pieces are
engaging (if rather obviously scripted in a lot of places) and the
music is terrific. For me, the ratio of music to talk is too low,
though.
I saw Bruce live
just once (Wembley Stadium, 1985, since you ask) and even there some
of the introductions dragged on a bit, but the excitement and
brilliance of the live performances more than compensated. Not
actually being present makes a lot of difference here, and, excellent
though the music performances are, it gets a little tedious at times.
This is a show I’d
love to have seen and which I’m glad to have heard. I’m not sure
it’s one that I’d want to listen to repeatedly, though.
Springsteen fans like me will want this in their collections but I’m
not sure how often I’ll be playing it.
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