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Bruce Springsteen: The Promise - The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town

Film exploring the three years it took to make Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album. Includes interviews with Springsteen, the E-Street Band, Jon Landau and Jimmy Lovine.

Thom Zimny's film, The Promise - The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, explores the three years it took to make Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album, 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town.

Struggling with newfound stardom brought on by 1975's Born To Run and locked in a legal struggle for control of his own career with his manager Mike Appel, Springsteen was determined to make an album that would do justice to the dreams and struggles of working-class America. The 'Boss' and the E-Street Band worked tirelessly to make a profound, mature work tinged with what Springsteen calls 'American noir'. In the process, he wrote and recorded nearly 70 songs, gave away potential hits like Because The Night and nearly drove his band and his producers around the twist.

Zimny's film is driven by in-depth interviews with Springsteen, the E-Street Band and producers Jon Landau and Jimmy Lovine and features extensive black-and-white archive footage of the process from the time, shot in Springsteen's home studio and at New York's Record Plant.

1 hour, 27 minutes

Last on

Sat 22 Jan 2011 00:50
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Music Played

  • Bruce Springsteen

    The Promised Land

  • Bruce Springsteen

    The Promise

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Darkness on the Edge of Town

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Badlands

  • Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

    Born To Run

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Something in the Night

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

  • Bruce Springsteen

    It's My Life

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Candy's Boy

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Streets of Fire

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Don't Look Back

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Racing in the Street

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Factory

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Jungleland

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Don't Say No

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Someday, Tonight

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Ain't Good Enough For You

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Come On

    • Let's Go Tonight.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Sherry Darling

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Independence Day

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Because the Night

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Triangle Song

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Talk to Me

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