Thanks again for the early "full album" shows. Since you seem plugged in to the Bruce "network", any chance of getting copies of the other full album shows posted? If yes, (and if not too much to ask), is there a perspective as to which of those shows were best, as for "BTR", "Darkness", and "BitUSA", they were performed in full multiple times?
8/9/92 Jones Beach, 10/2/96 Hartford, 9/8/98 E. Rutherford, 9/1/00 Camden, 7/5/03 Camden, 7/9/03 MSG, 7/14/03 PNC, 10/1/04 Reading, 9/30/05 Borgata, 10/1/05 Borgata, 10/3/05 Philly, 5/27/06 Camden, 6/1/06 E. Rutherford, 6/3/06 E. Rutherford, 6/20/08 Camden, 6/24/08 MSG, 6/25/08 MSG, 8/7/08 EV@NJPAC, 10/30/09 Spectrum, 10/31/09 Spectrum, 5/18/10 Newark
Thanks again for the early "full album" shows. Since you seem plugged in to the Bruce "network", any chance of getting copies of the other full album shows posted? If yes, (and if not too much to ask), is there a perspective as to which of those shows were best, as for "BTR", "Darkness", and "BitUSA", they were performed in full multiple times?
thanks for the kind words
but not exactly plugged in
just register here
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broken down by decade
and up to todays shows .
its an impressive collection and resource .
but be warned it can kill alot of your time ! :ugeek: :ugeek:
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Just read from BTX that Eddie Vedder played My City Of Ruins for Bruce at the Kennedy Center Honors!!!
with a gospel choir !
I have got to hear this !
Lets hope that CBS airs this part and doesnt edit it out
Washington D.C.’s elite rubbed elbows with rock & roll royalty Sunday night as Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, John Mellencamp, Sting and Melissa Etheridge paid tribute to Bruce Springsteen, one of five recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors at an elaborate tribute show. Robert DeNiro, Mel Brooks, jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and opera soprano Grace Bumbery were the other honorees at the ceremony, ch will air December 29th on CBS.
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The Big Man Clarence Clemons is recovering this morning in a Manhattan hospital from back surgery he had on Wednesday. .
Wishing him all the best , and hope that he's back on his feet very soon.
His horns are part of the signature sound of the E Street Band .
Get well Big Man .
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The Big Man Clarence Clemons is recovering this morning in a Manhattan hospital from back surgery he had on Wednesday. .
Wishing him all the best , and hope that he's back on his feet very soon.
His horns are part of the signature sound of the E Street Band .
Get well Big Man .
Anyone who has the Sundance Channel HAS GOT to
check out the Elvis Costello With..... series
Bruce Part 1 is on Demand on my Cable ( Time Warner NYC )
or check the local listinbgs for times in your area
Bruces acoustic solo performance of
41 Shots- American Skin sent shivers down my spine .
They also chat about how Bruce wrote Hungry Heart for The Ramones but Jon Landau stepped in and said no we cant give that one away .
Great stories told here .
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big letdown on the haiiti telethon from the boss, imo .
wouldve much more enjoyed a promised land or badlands from bruce and co,
not another dreadful we shall overcome,...
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after digging all of eddies covers of bruce,
( i was also in the house on 10-13-04 in NJ when Ed came out )
its about time the 2 of them collaborate on their own album
of re recordings of some of Bruces catalog,
starting with picks from The River.
I suspect The River is Eds favourite Bruce album .
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after digging all of eddies covers of bruce,
( i was also in the house on 10-13-04 in NJ when Ed came out )
its about time the 2 of them collaborate on their own album
of re recordings of some of Bruces catalog,
starting with picks from The River.
I suspect The River is Eds favourite Bruce album .
i bet Nebraska is eds fave bruce album. the cd would have to be just them and a bunch of acoustic guitars. some pj and bruce covers one cd and new material from the duo.
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In regards to the ASCAP lawsuit against Connolly's Pub and Restaurant, ASCAP was solely responsible for naming Bruce Springsteen as a plaintiff in the lawsuit. Bruce Springsteen had no knowledge of this lawsuit, was not asked if he would participate as a named plaintiff, and would not have agreed to do so if he had been asked. Upon learning of this lawsuit this morning, Bruce Springsteen's representatives demanded the immediate removal of his name from the lawsuit.
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NY Post: Chad Rachman
WE LICKED 'EM! Bruce Springsteen's fans scored a triumph yesterday as the Federal Trade Commission slapped Ticketmaster for bait-and-switch sales involving 14 of his concerts last year.
Thousands of Bruce Springsteen fans will receive refunds for deceptive ticket-sales practices by a unit of Ticketmaster, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday.
The FTC said Ticketmaster, which is now part of Live Nation Entertainment Inc., will repay fans "upward of a million dollars" after it used "deceptive bait-and-switch tactics" to sell tickets at 14 Springsteen concerts last year.
Fans complained last February that tickets to two Springsteen concerts at Jersey's Izod Center appeared to sell out instantly, and then they were directed to Ticketmaster's TicketsNow.com subsidiary to buy pricier tickets. The incident, which Ticketmaster blamed on a "glitch," sparked outrage from fans, lawmakers and the Boss himself.
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz told reporters yesterday that the investigation into the practices of the ticket reselling due to the Springsteen complaints had uncovered "pretty shocking" practices.
One such practice was that TicketsNow sold "phantom tickets" without telling the consumers they did not actually have the tickets, but were hoping to get them.
The FTC said TicketsNow was also not fully refunding fans for the premium-priced tickets it could not deliver.
In connection with the settlement, the FTC sent letters to all major ticket resellers demanding better transparency in dealing with fans.
"Clearly, consumers deserve better," Leibowitz said. "They deserve to know what they're buying, including the risk their tickets won't materialize."
The Springsteen uproar threatened to undermine Ticketmaster's merger with the concert-promoting giant Live Nation, which was eventually approved in January.
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1) Thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen it before. One of my favourite songs, saw him play it with the E-Street band last summer and it still gives me chills thinking about it!!
2) What the hell's with all those people criticising it in the comments below the video?! That makes no sense!
1) Thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen it before. One of my favourite songs, saw him play it with the E-Street band last summer and it still gives me chills thinking about it!!
2) What the hell's with all those people criticising it in the comments below the video?! That makes no sense!
Thanks again!
I took a glance at those comments before. There are some real assholes out there.
NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Continuum Books, publishers of the excellent 33-1/3 series, have just released Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen. From the back cover:
"On nearly ever major issue — poverty, racism, urban decay, war, and peace — Springsteen's music has offered a unique vision for moving forward with the agenda of creating 'the country we carry in our hearts' -- as he called it in an op-ed for the New York Times. Filled with provocative analysis of Springsteen's best-known hits and his most obscure songs, comparisons to other important works of American culture — ranging from The Sopranos to Edward Hopper — and a wealth of information about the last fifty years of American politics, culture, and society, Working on a Dream is a powerful and engaging study of this songwriter and performer's art."
Thanks to Continuum and author David Masciotra, we've got five copies of this new book to give away, each one signed for us by the author.
To enter to win a signed book, you just have to answer one question:
What song did Springsteen use to open the E Street Band set at every show on the Vote for Change tour?
Put your answer in the subject line of an email, with your name and address (where you'd like the book sent, if you win) in the body of the email, and send it to <!-- e --><a href="mailto:minesomeday@backstreets.com">minesomeday@backstreets.com</a><!-- e --> by Tuesday, March 30. From the ones with the correct answer in the subject line, we'll draw five entries at random and notify winners by email on Wednesday, March 31.
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Ann Kelly, 45, was a housewife living with her mortgage-broker husband and two children in a $600,000 home in a leafy New Jersey suburb.
But when the married Springsteen entered her life in 2005 -- showering her with concert tickets, serenading her during rehearsals and confessing she was on his mind while he toured -- the Jersey girl got lost in a "Tunnel of Love," court records alleged.
The relationship between Kelly and the "Born to Run" singer began with chitchats on the treadmills at a high-priced Red Bank, NJ, gym, but the pace quickened with lunch dates and eventually a full-on affair, her soon-to-be ex-husband claimed.
Christopher Sadowski
Ann Kelly had the "nicest ass" at her gym, Bruce Springsteen said, according to a suit. The two allegedly had lunch dates with her two kids present.
Accusations of an illicit tryst came to light after Ann's husband of 17 years, Arthur Kelly, 46, filed for divorce on March 27, 2009.
During the yearlong divorce proceeding, Arthur filed court papers alleging that Ann enjoyed a rendezvous with Springsteen while the husband was laid up in a hospital with heart trouble. Arthur also discussed marriage-counseling sessions at which The Boss was the main topic.
The bitter divorce is expected to be settled this week.
Rumors that Springsteen was stepping out with a redheaded knockout who was a dead ringer for Patti Scialfa, his wife of 18 years, began to swirl among gym rats at The Atlantic Club in 2005.
Arthur says Ann told him that Springsteen, 60, would stand at the end of her treadmill as she ran. It must have been a tempting vantage point for the "Thunder Road" singer because he once told Ann she had the "nicest ass" in the gym, Arthur says.
Workouts spilled into lunches at a nearby cafe, with Ann's two daughters sometimes tagging along. The children got to know Springsteen so well that they called him "Bruce," according to court records.
The wide-ranging chats Ann had with Springsteen got into politics. When the blue-collar hero and liberal icon learned that Ann was conservative, he gave her two books to read.
Being with Bruce brightened Ann's day. She allegedly told Arthur's mother several times that "it made her feel good that Bruce Springsteen was very interested in her," the papers say.
The housewife allegedly conscripted her friends to be on Springsteen watch.
In 2006, one friend supposedly left a voice mail on Ann's phone saying, "I got your message, and there were no Bruce sightings at the gym today."
Another friend purportedly provided intelligence on when Springsteen's wife would be away.
"[She] said that Patti will be out of town for the next two weeks," the friend said, according to a court filing.
As talk of an affair spread in 2006, Ann's father, Stephen Carton, allegedly grew concerned that she was wrecking her marriage. He urged her to quit the gym and cut off contact with Springsteen.
But the Kellys' marriage was already deteriorating.
The unhappy couple was attending counseling sessions where the "relationship with Bruce Springsteen was the main subject we discussed with the therapist as a major problem in our marriage," Arthur stated in a court filing.
The two had seemed to be living an idyllic and lavish life in a ranch-style home in West Long Branch, NJ. A registered nurse, Ann was a stay-at-home mom while Arthur earned upward of $500,000 a year running a loan business in Asbury Park, blocks away from the Stone Pony, the legendary venue where Springsteen first made his name.
Ann splurged on her physical appearance, her husband says in court records -- laying out cash for Botox, anti-aging laser treatments, breast implants and a personal trainer.
Bruce apparently noticed the primping. Despite warnings from Ann's father and marriage counseling, the romance heated up.
Springsteen seemed smitten -- Arthur alleges in court papers that The Boss told Ann that he thought about her while he was on tour.
There were other signs, Arthur says. In 2007 and 2008, unsigned Valentine's Day cards without stamps or postmarks showed up in the Kellys' mailbox in West Long Branch.
Springsteen personally gave Ann front-row tickets to concert rehearsals on Sept. 24 and 25, 2007, for his "Magic Tour" shows at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park. Ann was so floored by The Boss' crooning, she allegedly told Arthur's mother, "It felt like Bruce Springsteen was singing to me."
In 2008, Ann allegedly opted to be with Springsteen rather than her ailing husband. While Arthur had open-heart surgery in Cleveland, the singer joined her at a table at the Turning Point restaurant in Pier Village in Long Branch.
As part of the divorce settlement, Arthur took the adultery claim out of his petition and both parties agreed not to talk to the media. At her West Long Branch home last week, Ann declined to comment to The Post. In past divorce filings, she has denied a sexual relationship with Springsteen. However, during a deposition over the summer, she declined to answer any questions about the singer, court papers show.
The breaking point in the marriage allegedly came when Arthur told Ann a witness had spotted her kissing Springsteen in the parking lot of their gym. Arthur also claimed that the day before he filed for divorce, Ann admitted to him that her "relationship with Bruce Springsteen was inappropriate."
Arthur did not return calls for comment.
A spokeswoman for Springsteen declined to comment. However, a friend of The Boss said, "Bruce and Patti continue to have a terrific marriage and are very devoted to each other and their children."
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Thanks again for the early "full album" shows. Since you seem plugged in to the Bruce "network", any chance of getting copies of the other full album shows posted? If yes, (and if not too much to ask), is there a perspective as to which of those shows were best, as for "BTR", "Darkness", and "BitUSA", they were performed in full multiple times?
thanks for the kind words
but not exactly plugged in
just register here
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broken down by decade
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uh,
yeah,
that too .
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with a gospel choir !
I have got to hear this !
Lets hope that CBS airs this part and doesnt edit it out
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Sammi: Wanna just break up?
awesome .
for anyone who cares, CBS is airing The Kennedy Center Honors this Tuesday night at 8pm - check your local listings.
http://www.cbs.com/specials/kennedy_cen ... ors/video/
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The NY Post today actually had a photograph of Bruce bodysurfing, looking like a pro at it .
http://www.tmz.com/2010/01/13/bruce-spr ... rn-to-sun/
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Wishing him all the best , and hope that he's back on his feet very soon.
His horns are part of the signature sound of the E Street Band .
Get well Big Man .
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so hard to believe that that man is 60 years old!
certainly wishing him well
check out the Elvis Costello With..... series
Bruce Part 1 is on Demand on my Cable ( Time Warner NYC )
or check the local listinbgs for times in your area
Bruces acoustic solo performance of
41 Shots- American Skin sent shivers down my spine .
They also chat about how Bruce wrote Hungry Heart for The Ramones but Jon Landau stepped in and said no we cant give that one away .
Great stories told here .
http://www.sundancechannel.com/spectacle/
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wouldve much more enjoyed a promised land or badlands from bruce and co,
not another dreadful we shall overcome,...
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after digging all of eddies covers of bruce,
( i was also in the house on 10-13-04 in NJ when Ed came out )
its about time the 2 of them collaborate on their own album
of re recordings of some of Bruces catalog,
starting with picks from The River.
I suspect The River is Eds favourite Bruce album .
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41 Shots ( American Skin )
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In regards to the ASCAP lawsuit against Connolly's Pub and Restaurant, ASCAP was solely responsible for naming Bruce Springsteen as a plaintiff in the lawsuit. Bruce Springsteen had no knowledge of this lawsuit, was not asked if he would participate as a named plaintiff, and would not have agreed to do so if he had been asked. Upon learning of this lawsuit this morning, Bruce Springsteen's representatives demanded the immediate removal of his name from the lawsuit.
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That video is awesome! Especially like the shots of a young Bruce. Bruce is a GOD
NY Post: Chad Rachman
WE LICKED 'EM! Bruce Springsteen's fans scored a triumph yesterday as the Federal Trade Commission slapped Ticketmaster for bait-and-switch sales involving 14 of his concerts last year.
FTC Backs BOSS Fans
Thousands of Bruce Springsteen fans will receive refunds for deceptive ticket-sales practices by a unit of Ticketmaster, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday.
The FTC said Ticketmaster, which is now part of Live Nation Entertainment Inc., will repay fans "upward of a million dollars" after it used "deceptive bait-and-switch tactics" to sell tickets at 14 Springsteen concerts last year.
Fans complained last February that tickets to two Springsteen concerts at Jersey's Izod Center appeared to sell out instantly, and then they were directed to Ticketmaster's TicketsNow.com subsidiary to buy pricier tickets. The incident, which Ticketmaster blamed on a "glitch," sparked outrage from fans, lawmakers and the Boss himself.
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz told reporters yesterday that the investigation into the practices of the ticket reselling due to the Springsteen complaints had uncovered "pretty shocking" practices.
One such practice was that TicketsNow sold "phantom tickets" without telling the consumers they did not actually have the tickets, but were hoping to get them.
The FTC said TicketsNow was also not fully refunding fans for the premium-priced tickets it could not deliver.
In connection with the settlement, the FTC sent letters to all major ticket resellers demanding better transparency in dealing with fans.
"Clearly, consumers deserve better," Leibowitz said. "They deserve to know what they're buying, including the risk their tickets won't materialize."
The Springsteen uproar threatened to undermine Ticketmaster's merger with the concert-promoting giant Live Nation, which was eventually approved in January.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/f ... z0g5QwIiOM
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1) Thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen it before. One of my favourite songs, saw him play it with the E-Street band last summer and it still gives me chills thinking about it!!
2) What the hell's with all those people criticising it in the comments below the video?! That makes no sense!
Thanks again!
I took a glance at those comments before. There are some real assholes out there.
NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Continuum Books, publishers of the excellent 33-1/3 series, have just released Working on a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen. From the back cover:
"On nearly ever major issue — poverty, racism, urban decay, war, and peace — Springsteen's music has offered a unique vision for moving forward with the agenda of creating 'the country we carry in our hearts' -- as he called it in an op-ed for the New York Times. Filled with provocative analysis of Springsteen's best-known hits and his most obscure songs, comparisons to other important works of American culture — ranging from The Sopranos to Edward Hopper — and a wealth of information about the last fifty years of American politics, culture, and society, Working on a Dream is a powerful and engaging study of this songwriter and performer's art."
Thanks to Continuum and author David Masciotra, we've got five copies of this new book to give away, each one signed for us by the author.
To enter to win a signed book, you just have to answer one question:
What song did Springsteen use to open the E Street Band set at every show on the Vote for Change tour?
Put your answer in the subject line of an email, with your name and address (where you'd like the book sent, if you win) in the body of the email, and send it to <!-- e --><a href="mailto:minesomeday@backstreets.com">minesomeday@backstreets.com</a><!-- e --> by Tuesday, March 30. From the ones with the correct answer in the subject line, we'll draw five entries at random and notify winners by email on Wednesday, March 31.
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funny- that girl just looks like a 20 year ago Patti Sciafa ,..
Swing-steen
Ann Kelly, 45, was a housewife living with her mortgage-broker husband and two children in a $600,000 home in a leafy New Jersey suburb.
But when the married Springsteen entered her life in 2005 -- showering her with concert tickets, serenading her during rehearsals and confessing she was on his mind while he toured -- the Jersey girl got lost in a "Tunnel of Love," court records alleged.
The relationship between Kelly and the "Born to Run" singer began with chitchats on the treadmills at a high-priced Red Bank, NJ, gym, but the pace quickened with lunch dates and eventually a full-on affair, her soon-to-be ex-husband claimed.
Christopher Sadowski
Ann Kelly had the "nicest ass" at her gym, Bruce Springsteen said, according to a suit. The two allegedly had lunch dates with her two kids present.
Accusations of an illicit tryst came to light after Ann's husband of 17 years, Arthur Kelly, 46, filed for divorce on March 27, 2009.
During the yearlong divorce proceeding, Arthur filed court papers alleging that Ann enjoyed a rendezvous with Springsteen while the husband was laid up in a hospital with heart trouble. Arthur also discussed marriage-counseling sessions at which The Boss was the main topic.
The bitter divorce is expected to be settled this week.
Rumors that Springsteen was stepping out with a redheaded knockout who was a dead ringer for Patti Scialfa, his wife of 18 years, began to swirl among gym rats at The Atlantic Club in 2005.
Arthur says Ann told him that Springsteen, 60, would stand at the end of her treadmill as she ran. It must have been a tempting vantage point for the "Thunder Road" singer because he once told Ann she had the "nicest ass" in the gym, Arthur says.
Workouts spilled into lunches at a nearby cafe, with Ann's two daughters sometimes tagging along. The children got to know Springsteen so well that they called him "Bruce," according to court records.
The wide-ranging chats Ann had with Springsteen got into politics. When the blue-collar hero and liberal icon learned that Ann was conservative, he gave her two books to read.
Being with Bruce brightened Ann's day. She allegedly told Arthur's mother several times that "it made her feel good that Bruce Springsteen was very interested in her," the papers say.
The housewife allegedly conscripted her friends to be on Springsteen watch.
In 2006, one friend supposedly left a voice mail on Ann's phone saying, "I got your message, and there were no Bruce sightings at the gym today."
Another friend purportedly provided intelligence on when Springsteen's wife would be away.
"[She] said that Patti will be out of town for the next two weeks," the friend said, according to a court filing.
As talk of an affair spread in 2006, Ann's father, Stephen Carton, allegedly grew concerned that she was wrecking her marriage. He urged her to quit the gym and cut off contact with Springsteen.
But the Kellys' marriage was already deteriorating.
The unhappy couple was attending counseling sessions where the "relationship with Bruce Springsteen was the main subject we discussed with the therapist as a major problem in our marriage," Arthur stated in a court filing.
The two had seemed to be living an idyllic and lavish life in a ranch-style home in West Long Branch, NJ. A registered nurse, Ann was a stay-at-home mom while Arthur earned upward of $500,000 a year running a loan business in Asbury Park, blocks away from the Stone Pony, the legendary venue where Springsteen first made his name.
Ann splurged on her physical appearance, her husband says in court records -- laying out cash for Botox, anti-aging laser treatments, breast implants and a personal trainer.
Bruce apparently noticed the primping. Despite warnings from Ann's father and marriage counseling, the romance heated up.
Springsteen seemed smitten -- Arthur alleges in court papers that The Boss told Ann that he thought about her while he was on tour.
There were other signs, Arthur says. In 2007 and 2008, unsigned Valentine's Day cards without stamps or postmarks showed up in the Kellys' mailbox in West Long Branch.
Springsteen personally gave Ann front-row tickets to concert rehearsals on Sept. 24 and 25, 2007, for his "Magic Tour" shows at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park. Ann was so floored by The Boss' crooning, she allegedly told Arthur's mother, "It felt like Bruce Springsteen was singing to me."
In 2008, Ann allegedly opted to be with Springsteen rather than her ailing husband. While Arthur had open-heart surgery in Cleveland, the singer joined her at a table at the Turning Point restaurant in Pier Village in Long Branch.
As part of the divorce settlement, Arthur took the adultery claim out of his petition and both parties agreed not to talk to the media. At her West Long Branch home last week, Ann declined to comment to The Post. In past divorce filings, she has denied a sexual relationship with Springsteen. However, during a deposition over the summer, she declined to answer any questions about the singer, court papers show.
The breaking point in the marriage allegedly came when Arthur told Ann a witness had spotted her kissing Springsteen in the parking lot of their gym. Arthur also claimed that the day before he filed for divorce, Ann admitted to him that her "relationship with Bruce Springsteen was inappropriate."
Arthur did not return calls for comment.
A spokeswoman for Springsteen declined to comment. However, a friend of The Boss said, "Bruce and Patti continue to have a terrific marriage and are very devoted to each other and their children."
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