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In the new film, Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere, the currently red-hot actor Jeremy Allen

White plays the eternally red-hot rock star Bruce Springsteen.

And yes, White does his own singing.

The film tells the story of the 1982 album, Nebraska, which came at a time of personal and career

uncertainty for Springsteen and which ended up being recorded in a bedroom without a band.

I'm Stephen Thompson.

And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about Springsteen, Deliver Me from Nowhere,

on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Joining us today is writer, and I must say say Springsteen person, Chris Klemick.

Hello, Chris.

I got debts no honest man can pay, Linda.

Reasonable, reasonable.

All right, so Springsteen, Deliver Me from Nowhere is the latest in what feels like

kind of a flurry of biopics about musicians, including Bob Dylan, Elton John, and Freddie Mercury.

This one, though, starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, focuses on the recording of a single album.

In the film, Nebraska comes after Springsteen's big success with The River, and the record label is eager for radio-friendly singles

that can continue to build on that success. As it happens, Springsteen has a bunch of those at the

ready, but they aren't what he wants to do. He wants to record a series of lonely songs about

lonely people. You want to know, I did what I did.

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