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Atlantic City is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo guitar album Nebraska, which is generally considered one of Springsteen's darker albums musically. Image File history File links Bruce_Springsteen_-_Atlantic_city. ...
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ...
Nebraska is a heartland rock album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). ...
Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ...
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. ...
Nebraska is a heartland rock album by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1982 (see 1982 in music). ...
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Released as a single in most parts of the world except the United States (with "Mansion on the Hill" as the B-side), it reached # 15 in the United Kingdom.
The song depicts a young couple's romantic escape to the New Jersey city Atlantic City, but also wrestles with the inevitability of death as the man in the relationship intends to take a job as a hitman once arriving in the city, a fact he keeps secret from his female partner ("Honey, last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do a little favor for him."). The opening lines of "Atlantic City" reference mafia violence in nearby Philadelphia, with Springsteen singing: "Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night, now they blew up his house too." (The "chicken man" was a mafia boss named Philip Testa, who was killed by a bomb planted at his house in Philadelphia in March 1981.) The song also references widespread uncertainty regarding gambling during its early years in Atlantic City and its promises to resurrect the city. This uncertainty and the man's uncertainty about taking the less-than-savory job are echoed in the lyrics "Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies some day comes back." Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area Ranked 47th - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²) - Width 70 miles (110 km) - Length 150 miles (240 km) - % water 14. ...
Map of Atlantic City in Atlantic County Coordinates: , Country United States State New Jersey County Atlantic Incorporated May 1, 1854 Government - Mayor Bob Levy Area - City 17. ...
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Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area - City 369. ...
Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area - City 369. ...
Philip Chicken Man Testa (April 21, 1924 - March 15, 1981) was an American Mafia figure known for his brief leadership of the Philadelphia crime family. ...
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The song version is included on his 1995 Greatest Hits album and on the 2003 compilation album The Essential Bruce Springsteen. Bruce Springsteens first compilation was released on February 27, 1995, on Columbia records. ...
The Essential Bruce Springsteen is an album by Bruce Springsteen, released on 11 November 2003. ...
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Music video A music video was produced for "Atlantic City", which received some play on MTV in the United States. This was a non-representational video, meaning Springsteen did not appear in it. The video featured stark, black and white images of the city, which had not yet undergone its later transformation, and was still rather bleak and depressing. A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ...
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Live performances From the Born in the U.S.A. Tour on, "Atlantic City" has made fairly regular appearances in Springsteen's band concerts, with a soft-hard-cycle arrangement very similar to that of "Darkness on the Edge of Town". Such live versions appear on Springsteen's In Concert/MTV Plugged (1993) and Live in New York City (2001) albums. For the 2006 Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour, "Atlantic City" was drastically rearranged and featured multiple outros; as such it appears on the Live in Dublin (2007) album. The Born in the U.S.A. Tour was the supporting concert tour of Bruce Springsteens massively popular Born in the U.S.A. album. ...
In Concert/MTV Plugged is a live album by Bruce Springsteen. ...
The Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour is a 2006 concert tour featuring Bruce Springsteen and a large group playing what was billed as An all-new evening of gospel, folk, and blues, otherwise seen as a form of big band folk music. ...
Covers The song "Atlantic City" has been covered by other artists, here presented in chronological order: The Reivers are a pop band from Austin, Texas in the 1980s. ...
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Alternate meanings: See Atlantic City (disambiguation) Atlantic City is a city located in USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 40,517. ...
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Sources - The Bruce Springsteen Discography by Matt and Lori Orel
- AMG review
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