True story.
A couple of years ago, my wife and I were in the Morrison Hotel Gallery on Prince Street in New York and this iconic Frank Stefanko photo of a young Bruce Springsteen was going for $1,500 or $2,000 a pop. I can’t remember which.
Avid rock fans and supporters of the Morrison Gallery, we own several iconic photos of Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan and George Harrison.
We thought long and hard but just couldn’t pull the trigger on the Springsteen photo at that amount.
A couple of months later we were back in the gallery and the photo was now going for $6,000 a pop.
“Who would pay that?” I asked.
“Well, Bruce Willis was in here the other day and he bought two of them just like it was nothing,” I was told.
Anyway, Springsteen, 61, will be the subject of the documentary, “The Promise: The Making of ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ tonight on HBO. Here’s a New York Times story about it.
Also, the Morrison Hotel Gallery is featuring a special Springsteen exhibit Oct. 15 which you can read about here.
If you’re a rock ‘n’ roll fan and have never been to this gallery, I can’t recommend it enough.
Even if you don’t drop $2,000 per iconic photo.
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musicpub / October 8, 2010
With the much-anticipated release of the commemorative box set for Darkness on the Edge of Town slated for this November, Bruce Springsteen’s classic record is getting renewed attention in the music world. Fans are surely hungry for all the historic material they can get from the 1978 recording sessions and subsequent tour. For our own preview of what’s to come, we contacted Dick Wingate, who was intimately involved in the launch and marketing of the album and tour. He offers an insider’s view of what the Darkness era meant to Bruce and the band, while painting an often-humorous behind-the-scenes account of some of the tour’s highlights.
Enjoy, and check out the book The Light in Darkness, with great original Springsteen photos and which one fan said, “… would make a great companion piece to the commemorative Darkness box set…” http://www.thelightinDarkness.com
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