Lisette Voytko-Best is a reporter who covers entertainment, with a frequent focus on earnings in film, TV, and music. She joined Forbes in 2019 and is based in New York.
Better Days: “As my success increased,” Springsteen wrote in his 2016 memoir, “there was something about that ‘rich man in a poor man’s shirt’ that left an uneasy taste in my mouth."The Boss went from E Street to Easy Street by staying true to his humble roots—and rolling up his sleeves and going to work.hen Bruce Springsteen returned to his native New Jersey in 1981, he finally had some financial security.
Getting out would take some time. Springsteen spent the 1960s playing in a variety of local bands, figuring out who he was as an artist, before eventually signing with Columbia Records. For his debut album, Springsteen was backed by musicians who became the now-legendary E Street Band: guitarist Stevie Van Zandt, drummer Max Weinberg, the late saxophonist Clarence Clemons, among others.
The secret to Springsteen’s success? “I was into crafting an identity that was very, very personal to me as a man,” he explains in. “I wanted to connect that identity with the very big picture of the country at large…So I needed people who were going to be willing to go in as deep as I needed and was willing to go myself.”
Once Springsteen had the band, he turned to Jon Landau, a former rock journalist, to be his manager and record producer. It was Landau who, after listening the Boss’ music for the first time in 1974, famously wrote in Boston’sinto the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Over the course of his career, Springsteen has dominated the charts with 21 studio albums, seven live albums, and five EPs, selling over 140 million albums globally. He has also told his stories in a No. 1bestselling memoir, and 236 sold-out Broadway performances—along the way he won 20 Grammys, an Oscar, two Golden Globes, a special Tony Award, and has earned a place in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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