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New recordings, and a play shot “striking” Bruce Springsteen
ByDAVID BAUDER AP media writer
There's nary retreat oregon surrender from Bruce Springsteen — oregon from President Donald Trump, for that matter.
The stone prima released a integer EP connected Wednesday with 4 songs recorded unrecorded successful Manchester, England past week, on with 2 of his addresses to the assemblage that attacked Trump's “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”
The Boss pointedly opened his performance successful Manchester Tuesday night, his 3rd successful the English city, with the opus “No Surrender.”
A satirical video posted connected Trump's societal media relationship connected Wednesday showed the Republican president taking a plaything connected the play people and his “ball” hitting Springsteen successful the backmost arsenic helium stumbles to get onstage.
Springsteen, long a Trump opponent, began the latest skirmish successful the civilization warfare successful England past week, wherever helium opened a European tour. His same-state neighbour Trump — they some person homes successful New Jersey — responded by calling the Boss a “dried-out prune of a rocker.”
Both men person had different stone stars leap to their defense. Trump protagonist Kid Rock appeared doubly connected Fox News Channel past week. He said his chap Michigander, Bob Seger, “smokes” Springsteen.
“Bruce Springsteen is different 1 of the liberals who has mountains of wealth who truthful desperately wants to support his bully lasting successful the eyes of Hollywood and the elite,” Kid Rock said. Springsteen “plays the working-class guy” but his authorities are “ass-backward,” helium said.
On Fox's influential amusement “The Five,” erstwhile White House property caput Dana Perino said she ever recovered Springsteen overrated, and Greg Gutfeld denounced him with an off-color slur.
Neil Young has backed Springsteen, and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder praised him during a performance successful Pittsburgh implicit the weekend. Springsteen brought up issues, and successful effect “all that we heard were idiosyncratic attacks and threats that cipher other should adjacent effort to usage their microphones oregon usage their voices successful nationalist oregon they volition beryllium unopen down,” Vedder said.
“The name-calling is truthful beneath us,” said Vedder, earlier Pearl Jam performed Young's “Rockin' successful the Free World.”
For Springsteen, “No Surrender” replaced “Land of Hope and Dreams” atop his performance acceptable list. The EP released digitally connected Wednesday besides contained a screen of Bob Dylan's “Chimes of Freedom.”
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David Bauder writes astir the intersection of media and amusement for the AP. Follow him astatine http://x.com/dbauder and https://bsky.app/profile/dbauder.bsky.social.
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