Deliver Me From Nowhere", the title of this book, is also the final phrase of "State trooper", one of the best songs that make up "Nebraska. Without Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen’s hugely successful album The River should have been the hit-packed Born in the U.S.A. But instead, in 1982, he came out with an album consisting of a series of dark songs he had recorded by himself, for himself.
Bruce Springsteen has shed light on his decision to give upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere the go-ahead, despite charting a “difficult” time in his life. (NME)
Speaking recently at a Telluride Film Festival panel, Springsteen touched on “what brought this one along”, having presumably been approached about a biopic before.
“I think we had a very specific idea – Scott [Cooper, the writer-director] had a very specific idea, particularly, of what we were gonna attempt to do. And, for lack of a better word, it was an anti-biopic.
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“You know, it’s really not a biopic,” he said (via Variety). “It just takes a couple years out of my life when I was 31 and 32, and looks at them really at a time when I made this particular record, and when I went through some just difficult places in my life, you know. And, I’m old and I don’t give a fuck what I do now.”
Cooper said White’s approach to role had “an intensity of vulnerability and authenticity” he’d seen across Springsteen’s work. “Jeremy has two things that really, for me, make up Bruce Springsteen, and one is humility. And the other is swagger.”
“That’s half-right,” Springsteen joked in response, drawing laughter from the Colorado crowd.
" It was “an interesting concept, because it’s only a couple of years out of my life”.
“It’s ’81, ’82, and centred around the creation of that particular record while I was simultaneously recording ‘Born in the USA’ and also going through some personal difficulties that I’ve been living with my whole life. But it’s fantastic.”
"I had only been home a month, and I started writing all those songs. I wrote them really quickly. Two months for the whole record, and for me that's a very short time. I'd sit at my desk, and this thing it was fascinating. It was one of those cases where you almost didn't think about it. You work at it, but you do something you didn't imagine yourself doing. I knew I wanted to make a certain type of record, but I certainly hadn't planned it."
