The song caused their guitarist to quit, opening the door for Chris Thompson, who played guitar and sang on what became the ...

The youngest son of a nurse and an electrician, Sam Fender was born in North Shields ... Brit and NME Awards and landed him on a tour with Springsteen in Italy, but he’s still singing like ...

“Only the Strong Survive” comes from Butler's 1968 Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff-produced “The Ice Man Cometh” album on Mercury Records. Butler served on the Cook County Board of ...

To quote the Smiths, fame fame fatale fame, it can play hideous tricks on the brain. That’s what’s happening in the album-opening title track from People Watching, the third LP by U.K. pop ...

Sam Fender cuts an incongruous figure in the modern pop landscape, a hugely popular young star playing an electric guitar and singing rocky pop songs of protest, politics and passion. People ...

“I WATCH people on the way back home,” sings Sam Fender on the soul-bearing title track of his new album. A few years ago, he noted that Springsteen ... s**t version of Bruce.

With its widescreen ambition, driving intensity and visceral lyrics, People Watching can’t fail to draw familiar comparisons to Fender’s “biggest hero”, Bruce Springsteen. A few years ago ...

Sam Fender is the local hero who is going global. Dubbed the Geordie Springsteen when he broke through commercially in 2019, he took inspiration from the grittier realities of life in his native ...

By Kate Mossman Sam Fender’s giant success could be explained, not just by his similarity to Bruce Springsteen, but by the fact that he is the UK’s first politicised blue-collar solo rock act. How can ...

If there is any comparison to be made with the rock icon Bruce Springsteen (an artist who has had a clear influence on Fender), it’s the sheer magnitude that Fender brings to these small ...

It is produced by Adam Granduciel of the American band The War on Drugs, a musician who, like Fender, is steeped in Bruce Springsteen. (Music aside, they don’t necessarily have a lot in common ...