(Credits: Far Out / Raph Pour Hashemi / Album Covers)
Wed 13 August 2025 21:30, UK
There’s no contemporary artist who’s contributed to the great American songbook quite like heartland rocker Bruce Springsteen.
Springsteen always had a gift for mining the USA’s blue-collar experience into his anthemic lyricism. Even back in the days slogging it around New Jersey’s live-club circuit long before his 1970s arena stardom, Springsteen was crafting an evocative mix of folk vignette and rock stir that briefly heralded him as a successor to Bob Dylan.
Little over a decade later, Springsteen and his E Street Band stood as one of the defining acts of the 1980s, with Born in the USA selling over 30 million copies worldwide and becoming an unlikely star of the MTV age.
With such an affection for the soundtrack of yesteryear while always maintaining a modern sheen to his records, it’s no surprise that Springsteen has attracted a whole host of artists across the world and from different generations to take a stab at The Boss’s glittering oeuvre. At the heart of all his numbers is a keen examination of the human condition set against the everyday working-class backdrops that aid a recognisable universality that courses through every album, ripe material for all manner of interpretation.
While it’s hard to top Springsteen’s originals, we take a look at five of the most admirable efforts at some of ‘The Boss’s most loved songs.
Five of the best Bruce Springsteen covers:
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