Bruce Springsteen
66) Jerseyboy Hero
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Jersey Shore musician, Chris Vaughn, documents his journey to fulfill his life-long dream of getting his original music to the world by attempting to reach hometown heroes, Bruce Springsteen, and Jon Bon Jovi.
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Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with 200 stores, in 30 countries, on five continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a powerful force in the music industry. In 1999, Tower Records made an astounding $1 billion. In 2006, the company filed for bankruptcy. What went wrong? Everyone thinks they know what killed Tower Records: The...
76) Broken Poet
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Broken Poet is the story of 1970's rock star Jake Lion, who was presumed dead in Paris until his former roadie Plynth happens to be riding in the Paris Metro forty years after Jake's much publicized suicide and hears an aged street musician who sounds just like him. In search of an exclusive story, Rolling Stone sends a rock journalist Meg Trudeau to investigate.
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Being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at 38 was quite a blow to Bob Benjamin. But instead of letting the diagnosis take him down, Bob chose a different path…He recruited his friends - many of them musicians whom he had worked with in the past – to help him fight the disease. In 2000, Bob, Joe D'Urso, and concert promoter and former Asbury Juke Tony Pallagrosi founded the New Jersey-based Light of Day Foundation, whose main source of fundraising...