Daily News | The Boss’ guide to Philadelphia
upstairs at the club. The pack of cigarettes on a table besides the Boss in the original photo was photoshopped out for the cover.“Streets of Philadelphia,” Springsteen’s powerful single written for Jonathan Demme’s 1993 movieremains his final top-10 hit. The music video filmed for the song, which shows a scruffy and battered Bruce walking through more than a half-dozen equally scruffy and battered Philly streetscapes, is just as iconic.
In total, Springsteen performed at the intimate-by-arena-standards venue 42 times, including four nights in the run up to the building closing in 2009.The Boss drove his newly purchased 1960 Corvette convertible to photographer Frank Stefanko’s house in Camden County for a shoot. What resulted were the photos that captured the brooding intensity of 1978′s. The leather jacket and V-neck undershirt images were captured beside the flowery wallpaper in Stefanko’s bedroom.
The black and white video — in which Springsteen doesn’t appear — is a forlorn snapshot of the early ‘80s Jersey shore, with casino facades, salt water taffy shops and the implosion of the Marlborough-Blenheim hotel. Take a stroll down the boards in Atlantic City today and you’re hear the “Meet me tonight in Atlantic City” refrain played on speakers on an endless loop.Greetings From Asbury Parkis a carny town full of hope, possibility and youthful hijinks and heartache.
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