More than 34 years after ‘Born in the USA’ was first released and 45 years after release of his first album ‘Greetings from Ashbury Park’, a count down of The Boss’s DVDs …
Born In The U.S.A. Live: London 2013 is a limited edition DVD of a live full album performance of Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band and was recorded at the Hard Rock Calling festival in London, England at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on June 30, 2013. The DVD is available exclusively as part of a deluxe edition of Springsteen’s 2014 album, High Hopes.
This single-disc release of the Thom Zimny-directed documentary The Promise breaks his story of the Darkness album sessions out of the larger box set. Zimny’s Songs from the Promise is a major bonus feature: five songs from the E Street Band’s 2010 Carousel House show in Asbury Park, which was Clarence Clemons’ last appearance with the band.
If you think the Sessions Band sounded big, get a load of them in video form: 18 musicians onstage in front of a cozy but lively crowd that pretty much loses its mind at the mention of “Irish” during “American Land.” If you didn’t get a chance to see these guys live, play this big and turn it up.
Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75 is a concert video and the fourth live album by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, released in 2006. It is a full-length recording of their performance on November 18, 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, during their Born To Run tours. It was first released as a DVD on November 14, 2005 as part of the Born To Run 30th Anniversary Edition package, and then several months later on February 28, 2006 released as an audio CD. The album was reissued on vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day on April 22, 2017.
Wings For Wheels: The Making Of Born To Run chronicles the definitive story of Bruce Springsteens breakthrough album from songwriting to production and beyond. Includes archival film shot between 1973 and 1975 but never shown publicly.
A DVD release of Springsteen’s April 2005 performance, which featured the live debut of two songs from Devils & Dust. Bruce performed on acoustic guitar and piano, with Patti Scialfa joining on backing vocals for “Brilliant Disguise.” He discussed his writing process and the stories behind the songs, also taking questions from the audience.
Recorded in 2002, partly broadcast on CBS and performed to a crowd best described as “deliriously insane,” Barcelona captures the E Street Band with new addition Soozie Tyrell firing on all cylinders on the tour behind The Rising. Barcelona marked the first time that a complete Springsteen show was released on either audio or video.
This two-DVD set features the Emmy-award winning HBO broadcast from the final two shows of the E Street Band reunion tour from Madison Square Garden. A second disc compiles an additional 11 previously unseen songs from the shows. The set also features a documentary with live clips and interviews with the members of the E Street Band.
Bruce Springsteen’s Video Anthology 1978–88 was reissued as The Complete Video Anthology 1978-2000 by Sony in DVD on January 16, 2001 with 18 music videos, adding a second disc with 15 additional music videos or other clips.
In 1995, Bruce decided to invite the then-disbanded E Street Band back into the studio to record new songs for his upcoming Greatest Hits album. This documentary captures the recording sessions, the live video shoot for “Murder Incorporated,” and priceless insights into the band’s relationships with each other at the time.
The video release of Springsteen’s appearance with his ‘92-era band in this MTV series preceded the audio release by six months and includes three songs not aired on the broadcast or included on the audio release: “Living Proof,” “If I Should Fall Behind,” and “Roll of the Dice.”
Bruce Springsteen’s Video Anthology 1978–88 is a collection of 18 music videos made on his behalf, released in VHS format on January 31, 1989. In March 1989, “Video Anthology 1978–88” was certified 3x Platinum for over 300.000 copies sold.