Bruce Springsteen has sold his music rights to Sony Music Entertainment in what may well be the biggest transaction ever struck for a single artist’s body of work. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-sells-music-catalog.html
My father met Springsteen in Long Branch in the 70's. He was living in a tent in somebody's back yard. I guess he still had that above-it-all attitude back before he made it big. Edit: forgot this part. A few weeks later on a lark he bought my mother a first run copy of Greetings from Asbury Park out of a bargain bin at Jack's Music Shoppe, they had a laugh. She brings up that record to me at least once a year even though nobody has seen it in decades.
I don't know.... I managed a small vintage leather/denim shop on Melrose Ave. back in the early 90's. Once in a while Springsteen would mosey in... always on an early weekday when it wasn't busy. I usually had my Harley or my mint '66 Chevelle parked out front... so we'd talk cars & bikes. He was kinda shy and humble but always nice to me and the salesgirl. One day as he left the shop some local kid immediately stopped him outside the door. I knew the kid... late teens... wanna be musician. I walked out to get him off Springsteen but Bruce waved me off. Went back inside and watched him talk to this awestruck kid for like 20 minutes while they leaned on my Chevelle. So Springsteen may have been a prick to some people... who knows.... but that wasn't my experience.
He's doing what Bob Dylan did..sell High while you can 20 or 30 years from now your original audience of Boomers will be dead. Your music won't even be played and your oldie reunions done..sheesh Meantime Merril Lynch investments make you a Billionaire Hmm maybe Bruce wants to buy the Jets one day??
