The Complete Story of Born in the USA Album and World Tour Part 1

PART 1

1982 Recording NEBRASKA\BISUA Albums -

January 1985 Arena Shows

The Following is a fan made documentary using rare newsclips, newspaper articles, photos, posters and videos from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street

Band World Tour 1984-1985.

Born in the U.S.A. is the seventh studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It was released by Columbia Records on June 4, 1984. The album's music

was written by Springsteen and recorded with his E Street Band and producers Chuck Plotkin and Jon Landau at The Power Station and The Hit Factory in New York City.

Born in the U.S.A. was met with positive reviews and massivecommercial success. It produced seven top-10 hit singles

and was promoted with a worldwide concert tour by Springsteen. Born in the U.S.A. became his most commercially

successful album and one of the highest-selling records ever, having sold 30 million copies by 2012. It has also been cited

by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. The album received a nomination for Album of the Year at the 1985

Grammy Awards.The BITUSA sessions covered more than two years (January 1982 through March 1984), and produced approximately 80 songs. It is impossible to separate them from the songs that comprised the album Nebraska; all but one of the January 1982 Nebraska demos were recorded with the E Street Band during April–May. The decision to create Nebraska from the demos came after these sessions.

MTV had become the mainstream for artists to promote their music . Springsteen tried to remain coherent to his image and the values appreciated by his core fans, but also he

tried to reach a new and broader audience through the music video medium. This film contains Bruce's complete answers from interview with MTV VJ Mark Goodman in 1984.

Segments of the interview were used in MTV specials.

The Born in the U.S.A. Tour was the supporting concert tour of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. album. It

was his longest and most successful tour to date. It featured a physically transformed Springsteen; after two years of bodybuilding, the singer had bulked up considerably. The tour was the first since the 1974 portions of the Born to Run tours without guitarist Steven Van Zandt, who decided to go solo after recording the album with the group. Van Zandt,who was replaced by Nils Lofgren, would appear a few times throughout the tour and in some of the music videos to promote the album. It was also the first tour to feature Springsteen's future wife, Patti Scialfa.

The tour started in June 1984 and went through the United States and to Canada. In March 1985 the tour went to Australia, Japan

and Europe. It then headed back for a second leg of the U.S. tour in which Springsteen and the E Street Band played to sold-out

professional football stadiums. The tour finished in October 1985 in Los Angeles.

The tour grossed $80–90 million overall. Of that, $34 million came from Springsteen's summer 1985 stadium dates in North

America. The Born in the U.S.A. album was inside the top 10 of the Billboard 200 during the entire tour. Springsteen also was

enjoying a hit single from the album (there were seven in total) during any moment of the tour. The album along with Springsteen's previous album, Nebraska, which he did not

tour to promote, were performed in their entirety throughout the tour. Total attendance was 3.9 million.

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