You know, one of the initial things, I want to have fun, you know?
I just started out doing it for fun
and that's a big reason why I still do it.
I'm lucky that I can make a living out of it now, you know?
And...the day it stops being fun
will probably be the day I stop doing it, you know?
MUSIC: Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen
# Born down in a dead man's town
# The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
# End up like a dog that's been beat too much
# Till you spend half your life just to cover it up now
# Born in the USA
# I was born in the USA
# Born in the USA now
# Got in a little hometown jam
# So they put a rifle in my hands
# Sent me off to a foreign land
# To go and kill the yellow man now
# Born in the USA
# I was born in the USA
# Come back home to the refinery
# Hiring man said, "Son, if it was up to me"
# Went down to see my VA man
# He said, "Son, don't you understand, now?"
# I had a brother at Khe Sanh
# Fighting off the Viet Cong
# They're still there, he's all gone, gone, gone, gone
# He had a woman he loved in Saigon
# I got a picture of him in her arms now
# Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
# Out by the gas fires of the refinery
# I'm ten years burning down the road
# Nowhere to run, nowhere to go
# Born in the USA
# I was born in the USA
# I'm a long-gone daddy in the USA now
# I'm a cool rocking daddy in the USA now... #
Whoo!
# No, no, no, no, no, no, no
# No, no, no, no, no, no, no. #
Whoo!
Whoooo! Whoo!
Hungry Heart, wrote it for the Ramones originally.
HE CHUCKLES
And...
So that was...
They were in Asbury Park one night and I...
..went down and saw them and hung out backstage a little bit,
and they said, "Write us a song, write us a song."
So I said, "Yeah, all right." So I went home and...
I think the same night
I sat up and I wrote Hungry Heart, you know,
and we cut it down, all of it, and as I said in the past,
Jon Landau...
..you know, doing his job,
advised me to keep it, you know?
# I got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack
# I went out for a ride and I never went back
# Like a river that don't know where it's flowin'
# I took a wrong turn and I just kept goin'
# Everybody's got a hungry heart
# Lay down your money and you play your part
# Everybody's got a hungry heart
# Yeah, yeah
# I met her in a Kingstown bar
# We fell in love, I knew it had to end
# We took what we had and we ripped it apart
# Now here I am down in Kingstown again singing
# Everybody's got a hungry heart
# Lay down your money and you play your part
# Everybody's got a hungry, hungry heart
# Everybody needs a place to rest
# Everybody wants to have a home
# Don't make no difference what nobody says
# Ain't nobody want to be alone, singing
# Everybody's got a hungry heart
# Yeah, yeah, everybody's got a hungry heart... #
Let me hear you now!
# Lay down your money and you play your part
# Yeah, yeah
# Everybody's got a hungry heart
# Everybody, now
# Everybody's got a hungry heart
# Oh, yeah
# Everybody's got a hungry heart
# Sing it out now
# Lay down your money and you play your part
# Sing, yeah
# Everybody's got a hungry heart
# Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah
# La, la, la, la, la, la
# Oh, whoa, yeah
# La, la, la, la, la
# Whoa, whoa
# Yeah
# La, la, la, la, la
# Singing la, la, la, la
# Everybody's got a hungry heart. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
35,000 rock fans are at this moment crammed into Newcastle United's
football ground to hear the performer they call The Boss.
REPORTER: With 2,000 tickets held back for sale on the day
to foil the touts,
fans started queuing early,
some at four o'clock this morning.
With the St James' Park ground packed to capacity,
alcohol has been banned and police were keeping a close watch
to stop cans and bottles being smuggled in.
If there's an awful lot of people, there's enough pressures
on performers, on the audience, on everything.
You don't need any other irritants,
and alcohol is at best an irritant anyway.
Bruce Springsteen is so good, you don't need to be drunk to enjoy him.
For their £14.50, the devoted Springsteen followers
can look forward to four hours of live, loud rock music
from the man acclaimed by critics as the best and last rock-and-roller.
# I went out walking the other day
# Seen a little girl crying along the way
# She'd been hurt so bad, said she'd never love again
# Someday your crying, girl, will end
# And you'll find once again
# Two hearts are better than one
# Two hearts, girl, get the job done
# Two hearts are better than one
# Once I spent my time playing tough-guy scenes
# Yeah
# But I was living in a world of childish dreams
# Someday these childish dreams must end
# To become a man and grow up to dream again
# I believe in the end
# Two hearts are better than one
# Two hearts, girl, get the job done
# Two hearts are better than one
# Oh!
# Sometimes it might seem like it was planned
# For you to roam empty hearted through this land
# Though the world turns you hard and cold
# There's one thing that I know
# That's if you think your heart is stone
# And you're rough enough to whip this world alone
# Alone, buddy, there ain't no peace of mind
# That's why I'll keep searching till I find
# My special one
# Two hearts are better than one
# Two hearts, girl, get the job done
# Two hearts are better than one... #
Steve, my boy!
# I believe
# Two hearts are better than one
# Two hearts, girl, get the job done
# Two hearts are better
# Oh, they're better than one
# Better than one
# Better than one... #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# It takes two, baby
# It takes two Oh
# Baby
# Me and you
# Baby
# It just takes two. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# I was bruised and battered, I couldn't tell what I felt
# I was unrecognisable to myself
# Saw my reflection in a window and didn't know my own face
# Oh, brother, are you gonna leave me wastin' away
# On the streets of Philadelphia?
# La-la-la, la-la-la-la
# I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone
# I heard the voices of friends, vanished and gone
# At night I could hear the blood in my veins
# It was just as black and whispering as the rain
# On the streets of Philadelphia
# La-la-la, la-la-la-la
# Ain't no angel gonna greet me
# It's just you and I, my friend
# And my clothes don't fit me no more
# I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin
# Night has fallen, I'm lying awake
# I can feel myself fading away
# So receive me, brother, with your faithless kiss
# Or will we leave each other alone like this
# On the streets of Philadelphia?
# La-la-la, la-la-la-la
# On the streets of Philadelphia
# La-la-la, la-la-la-la
# On the streets of Philadelphia. #
Which song begins with the words
"the screen door slams, Mary's dress waves,
"like a vision she dances across the porch
"as the radio plays"?
Thunder Road.
Correct.
# The screen door slams
# Mary's dress sways
# Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
# Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely
# Hey, that's me and I want you only
# Don't turn me home again
# I just can't face myself alone again
# Don't you run back inside
# You know just what I'm here for
# So you're scared and you're thinking
# That maybe we ain't that young any more... #
Come on!
CROWD: # Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
# You ain't a beauty, but, hey, you're all right
# And that's all right with me
# You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain
# Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain
# Waste your summers praying in vain
# For a saviour to rise from these streets
# Well, now, I ain't no hero, that's understood
# All the redemption I can offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood
# With a chance to make it good somehow
# What else can we do now?
# Except roll down the window
# And let the wind blow back your hair
# The night's busting open
# These two lanes will take us anywhere
# We got one last chance to make it real
# To trade in these wings on some wheels
# Climb in back, heaven's waiting down on the tracks
# Oh, come take my hand
# We're riding out tonight to case the promised land
# Oh, Thunder Road, oh, Thunder Road
# Oh, Thunder Road
# Lying out there like a killer in the sun
# Hey, I know it's late, we can make it if we run
# Oh, Thunder Road, sit tight
# Take hold, Thunder Road
# Now, I've got this guitar and I've learned how to make her talk
# My car's out back if you're ready to take that long walk
# From your front porch to my front seat
# The door's open but the ride, it ain't free
# And I know you're lonely, there's words that I ain't spoken
# Tonight we'll be free, all the promises will be broken
# There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away
# They haunt this dusty beach road
# In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets
# They scream your name at night in the street
# Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
# And in the lonely cool before dawn
# You hear their engines roaring on
# When you get to the porch they're gone on the wind
# So, Mary, climb in
# It's a town full of losers
# We're pulling out of here to win. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
One, two... CROWD: One, two, three, four.
Now, for the first time on Top Of The Pops,
we go live to a concert,
as we drop in on Bruce Springsteen's Glasgow gig.
This is the brand-new song on Top Of The Pops, Lucky Town.
# Well, house got too crowded, clothes got too tight
# And I don't know just where I'm going tonight
# Out where the sky's been cleared by a good hard rain
# There's somebody calling my secret name
# I'm goin' down to Lucky Town
# Down to Lucky Town
# I wanna lose these blues I've found
# Down in Lucky Town
# Baby, down in Lucky Town
# Had a coat of fine leather and snakeskin boots
# But that coat always had a thread hangin' loose
# Well, I pulled it one night, to my surprise
# It led me right past your house and on over the rise
# I'm going down to Lucky Town
# Down to Lucky Town
# I'm gonna lose these blues I've found
# Down in Lucky Town
# Baby, down in Lucky Town
# And I had some victory that was just failure in deceit
# Now the joke's comin' up through the soles of my feet
# Been a long time walking on fortune's cane
# Tonight, I'm steppin' lightly and I'm feelin' no pain
# Whoa
# Well, here's to your good looks and here's to my health
# Here's to the loaded places that we take ourselves
# When it comes to luck, you make your own
# Tonight, I got dirt on my hands, but I'm building me a new home
# I'm going down to Lucky Town
# Down in Lucky Town
# I'm gonna lose these blues I've found
# Down in Lucky Town
# Baby, down in Lucky Town
# I'm going down to Lucky Town
# Down to Lucky Town
# I'm gonna lose these blues I've found
# Down in Lucky Town
# Baby, down in Lucky Town. #
CHEERING
Hi.
Oh, hi.
How's it going?
It's going OK, it's all right.
You think you could have it ready for me tomorrow morning?
Sure. Sure, I can even bring it out to you if you want.
No.
We live way out in the hills.
I'd better come pick it up.
Oh, yeah, I guess so.
Here.
Well...I'll see ya.
All right, I'll see ya.
# Hey, little girl, is your daddy home
# Did he go and leave you all alone? Uh-huh
# I got a bad desire
# Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
# Tell me now, baby, is he good to you
# And can he do to ya the things that I do? Uh-huh
# I can take you higher
# Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
# Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull
# And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul
# At night, I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
# And a freight train running through the middle of my head
# Only you, you cool my desire
# Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
# Ooh-hoo-hoo
# Ooh-ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo
# Ooh-hoo-hoo. #
APPLAUSE
# She'll let you in her house
# If you come knockin' late at night
# She'll let you in her mouth
# If the words you say are right
# If you pay the price
# She'll let you deep inside
# There's a secret garden she hides
# She'll let you in her car
# To go drivin' round
# She'll let you into the parts of herself
# That'll bring you down
# She'll let you in her heart
# If you got a hammer and a vice
# But into her secret garden
# Don't think twice
# You've gone a million miles
# How far'd you get?
# To that place where you can't remember
# And you can't forget
# She'll lead you down a path
# There'll be tenderness in the air
# She'll let you come just far enough
# So you know she's really there
# She'll look at you and smile
# And her eyes will say
# She's got a secret garden
# Where everything you want
# Where everything you need
# Will always stay
# A million miles away. #
You played a gig in Sunderland where you were in the driving rain
for three hours and you lost your voice at the end of it. Yeah.
What makes you keep going in conditions like that?
Well, I'm there to have a good time!
THEY CHUCKLE
I'm going to insist on it,
whether it's raining or sun shining or whatever
because I'm there for the people that are there.
AUDIENCE SING
It sounds corny, but you have to love your audience, you know? Mm.
For the most part, I've never found that hard to do.
# It's rainin', but there ain't a cloud in the sky
# Must have been the tear from your eye
# Everything'll be OK
# It's funny, I thought I felt a sweet summer breeze
# Must have been you sighin' so deep
# Don't worry, we're gonna find a way... #
Come on, Stevie!
# I'm waitin', waitin' on a sunny day
# Gonna chase the clouds away
# Waitin' on a sunny day... #
Come on!
# Without you, I'm workin' with the rain fallin' down
# I'm half a party in a one-dog town
# I need you to chase the blues away
# Without you, I'm a drummer, girl, that can't keep a beat
# Ice cream truck on a deserted street
# I hope that you're coming to stay
# I'm waitin'
# Waitin' on a sunny day... #
Come on!
# Gonna chase the clouds away... #
Come on!
# Waitin' on a sunny day... #
Come on! Come on, sing!
CHEERING
Come on, sing!
# Hard times, baby, well, they come to us all
# Sure as the tickin' of the clock on the wall
# Sure as the turnin' of the night into day
# Your smile, girl, brings the mornin' light to my eyes
# Lifts away the blues when I rise
# I hope that you're coming to stay... #
Sing!
# I said I'm waitin'... #
AUDIENCE: # Waitin' on a sunny day... #
Come on!
# Gonna chase the clouds away... #
Come on!
# Waitin' on a sunny day... #
All right, come on! Sing!
MUSIC STOPS
# I'm waitin'
# Waitin' on a sunny day... #
Come on!
# Gonna chase the clouds away... #
Come on!
# Waitin' on a sunny day... # Come on, man!
MUSIC RESUMES
Come on, Clarence!
Woo!
# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo
# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh... #
Hey!
# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh... #
Come on!
CHEERING
Woo!
# Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo
# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh... #
Hey!
# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
# Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh. #
CHEERING
# Well, John Henry was a little baby
# Sittin' on his daddy's knee
# He picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel
# And cried, "Hammer's gonna be the death of me, Lord, Lord
# "This hammer's gonna be the death of me"
# Well, the captain, he said to John Henry
# "I'm gonna bring that steam drill around
# "I'm gonna bring that steam drill out on these tracks
# "I'm gonna knock that steel on down, God, God
# "I'm gonna knock that steel on down"
# John Henry, well, he told his captain
# "Captain, a man, he ain't nothin' but a man
# "Before I let your steam drill beat me down
# "I'm gonna die with a hammer in my hand, Lord, Lord
# "I'll die with a hammer in my hand"... #
Oh!
# Well, John Henry was driving on the right side
# That steam drill was driving on the left
# "Before I let your steam drill beat me down
# "I'm gonna hammer myself to death, Lord, Lord
# "I'll hammer my fool self to death"
# Well, the captain said to John Henry
# "What is that storm that I hear?"
# John Henry said, "That ain't no storm, Captain
# "That's just my hammer in the air, Lord, Lord
# "That's just my hammer in the air"... #
Come on!
# Well, John Henry said to his shaker
# "Shaker, why don't you sing?
# "I'm swingin' 30 pounds from my hips on down
# "Listen to my cold steel ring, Lord, Lord
# "Listen to my cold steel ring"... #
Come on!
Come on, Greg!
# Well, John Henry, he hammered in the mountains
# His hammer was striking fire
# He worked so hard, it broke his heart
# John Henry, he laid down his hammer and died, Lord, Lord
# John Henry, he laid down his hammer and died...
Hey!
# Well, John Henry had a red-headed woman
# By the name of Polly Ann
# She walked out on those tracks, picked up John Henry's hammer
# Polly drove that steel like a man, Lord, Lord
# Polly drove that steel like a man
# Well every, every Monday morning
# When the bluebird, he begin to sing
# You could hear John Henry from a mile or more
# You can hear John Henry's hammer ring, Lord, Lord
# You can hear John Henry's hammer... #
Sing!
# You can hear John Henry's hammer ring, Lord, Lord
# You can hear John Henry's hammer ring... #
CHEERING
One, two!
Woo!
CHEERING
Good evening!
What do you hope people will sort of take away
with them from a concert?
If it's a good night out, that's great.
That's basically what it's meant to be, you know?
People come and they can put aside whatever their worries are
for a minute, maybe, and enjoy themselves, you know,
and dance a little bit.
You know, listen to the band, sing along a little bit.
Erm...
You know, I try to present a lot of different things,
so that it can be something...
I think you could come and maybe
it'll change the way you think about something, you know?
Maybe the way you think about your life or your job
or your friends or...
You know, I think you can do that.
We try to do it well enough so that it CAN do that.
# I come from down in the valley
# Where, mister, when you're young
# They bring you up to do
# Like your daddy done
# Me and Mary, we met in high school
# When she was just 17
# We'd drive out of this valley
# Down to where the fields were green
# We'd go down to the river
# And into the river we'd dive
Oh, down to the river we'd ride
# But I got Mary pregnant
# And, man, that was all she wrote
# And for my 19th birthday
# I got a union card and a wedding coat
# We went down to the courthouse
# And the judge put it all to rest
# No wedding day smiles, no walk down the aisle
# No flowers, no wedding dress
# We went down to the river
# And into the river we'd dive
# Oh, down to the river we'd ride
# I got a job working construction
# For the Johnstown Company
# But lately, there ain't been no work
# On account of the economy
# And all them things that seemed so important
# Well, mister, they vanished right into the air
# I just act like I don't remember
# Mary acts like she don't care
# But I remember us riding in my brother's car
# Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir
# At night on them banks, I'd lie awake
# And pull her close just to feel each breath she'd take
# Now, them memories come back to haunt me
# They haunt me like a curse
# Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
# Or is it something worse
# That sends me down to the river
# Though I know the river is dry
# Oh, down to the river tonight
# Down to the river
# My baby and I
# Oh, down to the river we ride
# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: Dancing In The Dark
The Atlantis crew woke this morning to a Bruce Springsteen song
played from Mission Control in Houston.
"It's time to do that delicate dance in the dark and dock with Mir,"
said Control.
# I get up in the evening
# And I ain't got nothing to say
# I come home in the morning
# I go to bed feeling the same way
# I ain't nothing but tired
# Man, I'm just tired and bored with myself
# Hey, there, baby
# I could use just a little help
# You can't start a fire
without a spark
# This gun's for hire
# Even if we're just dancing in the dark
# Messages keep getting clearer
# Radio's on and I'm moving 'round the place
# I check my look in the mirror
# I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
# Man, I ain't getting nowhere
# I'm just living in a dump like this
# There's something happening somewhere
# Baby, I just know that there is
# You can't start a fire
without a spark
# This gun's for hire
# Even if we're just dancing in the dark
# You sit around getting older
# There's a joke here somewhere and it's on me
# I'll shake this world off my shoulders
# Come on, baby, the laugh's on me
# Stay on the streets of this town
# And they'll be carving you up all right
# They say you gotta stay hungry
# Hey, baby, I'm just about starving tonight
# I'm dying for some action
# I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
# I need a love reaction
# Come on, now, baby, gimme just one look
# You can't start a fire
# Sittin' 'round crying over a broken heart
# This gun's for hire
# Even if we're just dancing in the dark
# You can't start a fire
# Worrying about your little world falling apart
# This gun's for hire
# Even if we're just dancing in the dark
# Hey, baby. #
# In the day, we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
# At night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines
# Sprung from cages out on Highway 9
# Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected and steppin' out over the line
# Whoa
# Baby, this town rips the bones from your back
# It's a deathtrap, it's a suicide rap
# We gotta get out while we're young
# Cos tramps like us, baby, we were born to run... #
Hey!
# Wendy, let me in I wanna be your friend
# I want to guard your dreams and visions
# Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet ribs
# And strap your hands across my engines
# Together, we could break this trap
# Run till we drop, baby, we'll never go back
# Whoa
# Will you walk with me out on the wire
# Girl, I'm just a scared and lonely rider
# I gotta find out how it feels
# I want to know if love is wild
# I want to know if love is real
# Well, can you show me? #
One, two, three!
# Beyond the Palace, hemi-powered drones scream down the boulevard
# The girls comb their hair in rear-view mirrors
# The boys try to look so hard
# The amusement park rises bold and stark
# Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist
# I wanna die with you, Wendy, on the streets tonight
# In an everlasting kiss... #
One, two, three!
# The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive
# Everybody's out on the run tonight
# But there's no place left to hide
# Together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness
# I'll love you with all the madness in my soul
# Someday, girl, I don't know when
# We're gonna get to that place
# We really want to go
# And we'll walk in the sun
# But till then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run
# Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run
# Whoa, oh, whoa
# Whoa-oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh
# Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
# Whoa, oh, whoa
# Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE