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Jeremy Allen White and the cast and director of 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' share their first memories of Bruce Springsteen.
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00:00Before we start, I have to share something.
00:02Our Billboard Charts team did a little digging,
00:05and obviously we know Bruce Springsteen
00:06has had an incredible legacy through rock and roll,
00:09but I have to read this verbatim.
00:11With Letter To You, releasing in 2020,
00:14Bruce Springsteen became the first artist
00:16to have a new top five album on the Billboard 200
00:19in each of the last six decades.
00:21Yeah.
00:23That guy's really going somewhere.
00:24You know what I mean?
00:25Yeah.
00:25He's gonna make it.
00:26He's got a future.
00:27I think he's gonna do all right.
00:28Small local guy, but big dreams.
00:30Yeah, yeah.
00:31So I wanna know from each of you,
00:33what was your first entry point to Bruce Springsteen?
00:35And can you talk a bit about the moments
00:38that maybe have been soundtracked by him
00:39throughout your lives?
00:40It was Nebraska.
00:41It was the first album that my father,
00:46who really helped form my early musical interests,
00:50introduced to me.
00:52And quite honestly, I've kind of been haunted by it
00:56ever since, which is why I made a film about it.
00:58But I'm such a longtime fan of Bruce's, certainly.
01:01That I would listen to often when I would write other movies
01:04or The Ghost of Tom Joad, Letters,
01:07Darkness on the Edge of Town, of course.
01:10Greetings from, well, where we are, Asbury.
01:13I mean, it's endless for me and Bruce.
01:17Yeah, I guess my introduction to Bruce,
01:20or when I found him on my own,
01:21like I was always familiar with him.
01:23I always knew his name.
01:24I knew the radio hits.
01:26But I think it was like, it was Born to Run, really,
01:28which was like the first record I listened to a lot.
01:31It had so much romance, listening to that in high school,
01:38the excitement of kind of like youth.
01:41And also, like I grew up listening to a lot of like Phil Spector
01:44and stuff like that in my house.
01:45And I think, you know, Born to Run is so inspired by Phil Spector
01:50and that like wall of sound.
01:51Yeah, that was just such a fun, fun record.
01:55It was probably the first one that I got into.
01:58I think mine was Born to Run, too.
01:59Yeah.
02:00Just because it has those like massive anthems.
02:03Yeah.
02:04Oh, yeah.
02:04Like, I think it was kind of this family tradition
02:07whenever we'd get together.
02:08My family would like put a couple bottles of wine away
02:11and like play the song Jungle Land from start to finish
02:16in complete silence, looking at each other like,
02:19can you believe it?
02:21So that was, yeah.
02:23Hungry Heart became like this like Christmas song for me.
02:25Does that make sense?
02:26Oh, really?
02:27Anybody else?
02:27That's amazing.
02:28Yeah.
02:29There's like the, it's the bells or something like that.
02:31Yeah.
02:32So we would hear that, like we would play that oftentimes
02:35around Christmas for some reason.
02:37Oh, man.
02:37When I hear that, I think about Christmas time.
02:39Yes.
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