
Bruce Springsteen
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Year:
1999
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Inducted by:
Bono (U2)
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Category:
Performers
Introduction
Bruce Springsteen became a voice of underdogs and the working-class, thanks to his unsparing observations about what life was really like for those with no access to a silver spoon.
As a songwriter, however, he was also deeply romantic and sentimental. In long-time collaborators the E Street Band, he found kindred spirits who shared his commitment to barnstorming optimism.

Bono Inducts Bruce Springsteen
Bono of U2 Inducts Bruce Springsteen at the 1999 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
Bono Inducts Bruce Springsteen00:09:43
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Bruce Springsteen Acceptance Speech00:17:12
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"Backstreets"00:07:32
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"The Promised Land"00:05:37
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"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"00:10:07
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"Mustang Sally"00:04:38
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Bruce Springsteen Inducts the E Street Band00:16:12
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"Kitty's Back"00:15:48
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"The E Street Shuffle"00:05:31
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"The River"00:06:10
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Bruce Springsteen Inducts Creedence Clearwater Revival00:05:57
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"Born On The Bayou"00:03:40
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Bruce Springsteen Inducts Bob Dylan00:05:33
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Bruce Springsteen Inducts Roy Orbison00:01:17
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"Crying"00:03:35
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"In the Midnight Hour"00:05:41
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"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"00:04:18
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"Because the Night"00:05:11
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"Oh, Pretty Woman"00:03:15
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"Born to Run"00:05:27
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"Badlands"00:06:11
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"The Ghost of Tom Joad"00:06:11
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"Jungleland"00:10:23
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"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"00:04:06
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Bruce Springsteen Inducts Jackson Browne00:10:07
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Bruce Springsteen Inducts U200:16:24
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"Forever Young"00:05:19
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"Shake, Rattle and Roll"00:04:11
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"Darkness on the Edge of Town"00:04:54
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"She's the One"00:05:59
Hall of Fame Essay
1999
When both Time and Newsweek magazines splashed the face of a largely unknown singer/songwriter across their covers in the fall of 1975, the event was as much about fiercely competitive journalism as it was publicity hype and record-company hope.
Still, it was an unlikely scenario, even for pop music. Here was a twenty-six-year-old, scraggly-faced street poet from Asbury Park, New Jersey, who had not sold millions of albums or toured the world to great acclaim or impacted the music and its culture. Not yet, anyway. But there he was on the cover of not one but two of the most powerful magazines in the world, an honor usually bestowed only on presidents, prime ministers and popes.


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Bruce Springsteen became a voice of underdogs and the working class, thanks to his unsparing observations about what life was really like for those with no access to a silver spoon.