Bruce Springsteen to Cover Suicide on Limited-Edition EPs

Bruce Springsteen, Liars, Primal Scream and many more will celebrate the 60th birthday of Suicide's Alan Vega with covers of the punk icon's songs for a set of limited-edition vinyl EPs. On July 28th, Springsteen — who has long professed his love of the synth-punk duo — will appear on the first of the twelve EPs, performing the non-album single "Dream Blue Baby." That 10'' vinyl will have a limited run of only 4,000 copies, though each of the monthly EPs will also be released digitally. Each EP is also backed by an unreleased Suicide/Vega live track along with a cover of a Suicide song by a smaller, up-and-coming act. Peaches, Primal Scream and Grinderman will also participate in the EP project. Additionally, Suicide will also release a six-disc document of their infamous live sets later this month.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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