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Bruce Springsteen's new studio album "Magic" will be released in the UK on October 1 2007.

The album contains 11 new Bruce compositions:

1 Radio Nowhere

2 You'll Be Comin' Down

3 Livin' In The Future

4 Your Own Worst Enemy

5 Gypsy Biker

6 Girls In Their Summer Clothes

7 I'll Work For Your Love

8 Magic

9 Last To Die

10 Long Walk Home

11 Devils Arcade

You will no doubt be pleased to hear that the backing band on the album is The E Street Band.

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer returns Oct. 2 with a new album, titled ""Magic,'' his first collaboration with his longtime New Jersey mates since the Sept. 11-inspired "The Rising'' in 2002, Springsteen announced through his publicist Thursday.

The album, other than its atmospheric title track, is billed as Springsteen's return to rock 'n' roll after his solo ""Devils & Dust'' and the folk-inspired ""The Seeger Sessions.'' Fans can expect Clarence Clemons' familiar saxophone, Danny Federici's soaring keyboards and Max Weinberg's pounding drums along with a lot of guitars.

The 11-song album is Springsteen's first of all-new material since April 2005, when he released the acoustic ""Devils & Dust.'' Springsteen's 15th studio album follows last year's ""The Seeger Sessions,'' where the Boss and a 17-piece backing band played reconjured versions of songs associated with folkie Pete Seeger.

For this album, recorded with producer Brendan O'Brien in Atlanta, Springsteen reunited with the full E Street Band to recreate its Garden State wall of sound: guitarists Steve Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren, bassist Garry Tallent, drummer Weinberg, keyboardists Federici and Roy Bittan, sax man Clemons, violinist Soozie Tyrell and vocalist Patti Scialfa.

Last year, Springsteen said he'd already written a ""whole book of songs for the E Street Band.'' He assembled the band earlier this year and they finished the album in two months, about the same amount of time spent recording the multi-platinum ""The Rising.''

I'm buying it.

I hang my head to admit this but I grew unhappy with Bruce for a while. Or the music, not him. Maybe I just wanted everything to be like the old albums. I gave up on The Ghost of Tom Joad. I couldn't find anything in it to grab hold of. That's how long it's been. But I'll buy Magic and see if he's back for me.

Thanks for this info Uncle Kram!

RedGlitter;680749 wrote: I'm buying it.

I hang my head to admit this but I grew unhappy with Bruce for a while. Or the music, not him. Maybe I just wanted everything to be like the old albums. I gave up on The Ghost of Tom Joad. I couldn't find anything in it to grab hold of. That's how long it's been. But I'll buy Magic and see if he's back for me.

Thanks for this info Uncle Kram!
After Tom Joad, there were a few offerings on the end of the Greatest Hits which were good. Then there was the live album in NYC which was good. Couple of new songs and a great version of The River. The Rising chronicled 9/11 in an unbelievable way. The sound was completely different due to the first hook-up with Brendan O'Brien as producer. A classic album really. Devils and Dust tackled subjects as diverse as Iraq and the dissatisfaction of an encounter with a prostitute. Bruce got his first Parental Advisory lyrics sticker for that one. I personally couldn't connect to the folkie stuff on the Pete Seeger sessions, but I saw him twice on that tour and reworkings of his own material in that style was particularly good. Hope this new one will be another gem. With the ESB in tow, I have every faith that he will deliver yet again.

I have his Greatist Hits but i wasnt that Inpressed by him but i loved Streets of Philidelphia

Musiclover89;680996 wrote: I have his Greatist Hits but i wasnt that Inpressed by him but i loved Streets of Philidelphia
My personal favourite. So simple. So haunting.

Another really haunting song is Lift Me Up which plays as the credits roll on his anthology DVD. This falsetto offering later surfaced on the Essential CD.