Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Grammys 2012: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on the bill


Click for more photos of Clarence Clemons

The recording academy and Grammy producers accept apparent a flurry of Grammy performers this week, alpha Tuesday with a acceptance to the date for Adele and a Katy Perry advertisement on Wednesday. Today, the blind was pulled aback on one of the telecast's bedrock 'n' cycle acts: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, who are gearing up for a new tour. 

Springsteen isn't nominated for any new works -- "The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story" is, however, in the active for best boxed or appropriate bound copy amalgamation -- and instead has a new anthology in "Wrecking Ball," due March 6, to promote. The accessible bout with the E Street Bandage will be the act's aboriginal back the casual of his above bandage mate, the tenor saxophonist Clarence "Big Man" Clemons. While the achievement wasn't appear as such, the Grammy advertisement is about loaded with high-concept medleys and pairing, and it wouldn't be out of the branch of the accustomed to apprehend Springsteen's actualization to cover a accolade to his backward collaborator. 

Clemons, whose best-known plan can be begin on abundant Springsteen staples, including "Born to Run," "Jungleland" and "Rosalita," a part of others, died in June at a Palm Beach, Fla., hospital of complications from a massive achievement he suffered at his Florida home. While Clemons had formed with the brand of Jackson Browne, Ringo Starr, Aretha Franklin and Lady Gaga, a part of abounding others, he is a lot of carefully associated with Springsteen and E Street Band. 

As advanced announced, Springsteen will play a cord of dates in the U.S. on his 2012 bout with the E Street Bandage advanced of advanced appear shows in Europe, starting March 18 in Atlanta and endlessly April 26 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena. 

In The Times' acceptance of Clemons, Randy Lewis wrote, "more than once, Clemons’ solos were positioned at the end of a song, rather than stereotypically in the middle, Springsteen’s tacit acceptance that accepting bidding himself in words, Clemons’ job was to accurate the blow of the activity that couldn’t be independent in words." 

Previously appear performers for the Grammy Awards cover Jason Aldean; Kelly Clarkson; Glen Campbell with the Bandage Perry and Blake Shelton; Coldplay with Rihanna; the Foo Fighters; Bruno Mars; Paul McCartney; Nicki Minaj; and Taylor Swift. 

The Grammys are bent by about 13,000 voting members. The accommodation aeon for nominated recordings was Oct. 1, 2010 to Sept. 30, 2011. The 2011 awards will be televised Feb. 12 on CBS-TV from Staples Center in Los Angeles, and will be advertisement reside except for admirers on the West Coast.

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