{"id":29586,"date":"2024-05-24T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bruce-springsteen-becomes-first-international-songwriter-honored-with-ivors-academy-fellowship\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T00:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T00:02:25","slug":"bruce-springsteen-becomes-first-international-songwriter-honored-with-ivors-academy-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bruce-springsteen-becomes-first-international-songwriter-honored-with-ivors-academy-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen becomes first international songwriter honored with Ivors Academy fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-23\/Getty_BruceSpringsteen_052324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Mike Lewis Photography\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong> was\u00a0celebrated in London on Thursday, being honored as\u00a0an\u00a0Academy Fellow of The Ivors Academy. He&#8217;s the first\u00a0international songwriter\u00a0to receive the honor by the U.K. organization, which presents The Ivor Novello Awards,\u00a0celebrating excellence in British and Irish songwriting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/culture\/music\/paul-mccartney-elton-john-bruce-springsteen-london-beatles-b1159905.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Standard<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Beatles<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong> was on hand to\u00a0present\u00a0Springsteen with his honor, calling\u00a0The Boss a \u201clovely, lovely boy\u201d and a friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe\u2019s a fantastic guy and he showed up for me at Glastonbury,\u201d McCartney added. \u201cHe\u2019s known (as the) American working man, but he\u2019s never worked a day in his life.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During his speech, Bruce recalled his\u00a0early\u00a0shows in the U.K.\u00a0in 1975 and the difficulty he had finding something to eat, noting it was &#8220;a little disconcerting&#8221; that he couldn&#8217;t find a cheeseburger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He added that if London wasn&#8217;t ready for burgers,\u00a0it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;ready&#8221; for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Springsteen is now the 27th Ivors Fellow. Other artists who have received the honor include <strong>Sting<\/strong>, McCartney,\u00a0 <strong>Kate Bush<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Elton John\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Peter Gabriel<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Also honored at the Ivors was Elton&#8217;s\u00a0songwriting partner <strong>Bernie Taupin<\/strong>, who received the award for outstanding contribution to British music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Springsteen was able to attend the ceremony because he had a couple days off from his tour with the <strong>E Street<\/strong> <strong>Band<\/strong>. Next up they play Marseille, France, on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Lewis Photography\/Redferns Bruce Springsteen was\u00a0celebrated in London on Thursday, being honored as\u00a0an\u00a0Academy Fellow of The Ivors Academy. He&#8217;s the first\u00a0international songwriter\u00a0to receive the honor by the U.K. organization, which presents The Ivor Novello Awards,\u00a0celebrating excellence in British and Irish songwriting. According to The Standard, The Beatles&#8216; Paul McCartney was<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/bruce-springsteen-becomes-first-international-songwriter-honored-with-ivors-academy-fellowship\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}