Outtakes: Springsteen on 1st guitar, touring and Twitter

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhen Variety Music wasn’t busy breaking huge Taylor Swift stories this week, we’ve been deep in preparing for our version of the Grammys: our annual Hitmakers issue and event, which honors the top songs of the year and, notably, the people behind them.

Bruce Springsteen performed three acoustic tracks at this year’s Stand Up For Heroes benefit gig last night (November 19).The Boss performed ‘House Of A Thousand Guitars’ from his new ‘Letter To You’ album, with wife and bandmate Patti Scialfa, in an empty New Jersey bar.Springsteen also played a solo-acoustic version of ‘Long Walk Home’, from his 2007 album ‘Magic’ before teaming up with Scialfa again for a rendition of ‘I’ll See You In My Dreams’ from his new album.

Ellise Shafer editorVariety is pleased to announce that Mary J. Blige and Marcus Mumford will be keynote speakers at its Music for Screens Week, airing Nov.

Prince Harry joined stars like Tiffany Haddish, Ray Romano, Bruce Springsteen and more at the 14th Annual Stand Up for Heroes event on Wednesday.

Eminem, Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z.The new mix arrives to promote the release of Obama’s memoir A Promised Land, which hits shelves today (November 17).

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBleachers frontman and hit producer Jack Antonoff has always worn his New Jersey affiliation and Bruce Springsteen influence proudly, and today he brings it all home: Bleachers have dropped two new tracks, giving fans a sneak peek of new music a forthcoming album due next year — and one of them, “Chinatown,” features none other than Springsteen himself.

Bleachers fans are speculating that new material from the band could feature Bruce Springsteen.The Jack Antonoff-led project previewed new material over the weekend after both Bleachers and Antonoff tweeted a phone number for fans to call.As The Line Of Best Fit notes, Bleachers fans who called up the number (which promised to “take the sadness out of Saturday night”) were greeted with previews of two new songs by the band when they pressed certain key combinations.

Janet W. Lee John Leland, designer for Disneyland and a founding member of Los Angeles’ Bob Baker Marionette Theater, died Thursday at a nursing home in Ventura, Calif., a spokesperson from the theater confirmed to Variety.

NEW YORK -- This year’s Stand Up for Heroes fundraiser is going virtual for the first time and The Boss will once again be there.

November 10, 2020See also: Gay Twitter has taken over the Proud Boys hashtag and it’s beautifulLater, a man claiming to be “Dan Purdy” posted a video defending Browning, saying he intended to send that message to the Pennsylvania Republican, according to USA Today. “I am indeed a gay, black man,” the man in the video said.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBruce Springsteen will once again tell dirty jokes and play a few songs — albeit virtually — for the annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit event, which supports the Bob Woodruff Foundation’s efforts to help wounded service members, veterans and their families. The show will air at 9 p.m.

New York's annual Stand Up for Heroes comedy benefit for wounded veterans and their families is going virtual amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This year's lineup for the 14th annual event, set for Nov.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticStand Up for Heroes, the annual New York comedy event hosted by Jon Stewart honoring veterans and their families, will go virtual for the first time in its 14-year history.

Chris Willman Music WriterA deluxe edition send country star Luke Combs’ “What You See Is What You Get” back to the top of the album chart nearly a year after it came out, while, in second place, Bruce Springsteen’s “Letter to You” was the week’s top-debuting album.Springsteen was No.

Coronation Street ’s 60th birthday this December.

The Boss has been on a roll for the last six decades.

Bruce Springsteen makes Official Chart history this week as he scores his 12th Number 1 album with Letter To You.

Bruce Springsteen has a commanding lead on this week’s Official Albums Chart Update as his new album Letter To You looks set to become his 12th UK Number 1.

Bruce Springsteen has given a rare in-depth interview ahead of the release of his new album Letter To You.