Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ album marks 30th year
Bruce Springsteen is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his “Born to Run” album – which landed him simultaneously on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines – with a special box set.
The “Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition,” due Nov. 15, will include a DVD of Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 1975 performance at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, a 16-song set that featured much of the album.
A second DVD, “Wings for Wheels: The Making of Born to Run,” is a 90-minute documentary about the album that features fresh interviews from Springsteen, band members and others involved. It also features footage of Springsteen performing some of the songs solo with guitar or piano.
The package also features a newly remastered “Born to Run” disc. But there’s no additional music – outtakes or the like – such as that often featured in box sets.
Red-throated women
Country singer Gretchen Wilson has postponed an Alabama concert and canceled another in Georgia after her doctor advised her to rest her voice.
“There is nothing urgent about her condition,” her publicist said. “She has been working nonstop for 15 months and this is the best time for her to take a rest.”
Wilson’s second album, “All Jacked Up” – the follow-up to her chart-topping 2004 debut, “Here For the Party,” which produced the hit “Redneck Woman”– was released Tuesday.
She is scheduled to begin “The Revolution Tour” with Big & Rich and the Muzik Mafia on Nov. 4 in Houston.
Tupac script to see screen
A screenplay written by slain rapper Tupac Shakur is being produced as a feature film.
“Live 2 Tell,” a script Shakur wrote in 1995 about an inner-city black youth who becomes a drug kingpin and later goes straight, was acquired by Insomnia Media Group, which plans to begin production next March.
Shakur, who appeared in such films as “Poetic Justice,” “Above the Rim” and “Gridlock’d,” had written “Live 2 Tell” as a starring vehicle for himself.
The rapper was gunned down on the Las Vegas Strip in 1996. His murder remains unsolved.
Other projects by Insomnia include an upcoming film biography of Napster creator Shawn Fanning, as well as the tattoo-parlor reality TV show “Inked.”