“Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” helped give New Jersey a more prestigious place on the music map

Keywords: ALBUMS , BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN , CLARENCE CLEMONS , JERSEY SHORE , MUSIC , NEW JERSEY , ROCK , ROCK AND ROLL , STEVEN VAN ZANDT , THE 70S , 1/5/23

“It is the spirit of the Jersey Shore,” said Eileen Chapman, Director of the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University, which will hold The 50th Anniversary: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. symposium on Saturday.  “I think it [inspired] not only Jersey pride, but pride that somebody we knew actually had the opportunity to do what they love. There was just a lot of pride in Bruce.”

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