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Thursday / March 28.
  • Springsteen, Bruce Willis & $6,000 Rock Photos

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    True story.

    A couple of years ago, my wife and I were in the Morrison Hotel Gallery on Prince Street in New York and this iconic Frank Stefanko photo of a young Bruce Springsteen was going for $1,500 or $2,000 a pop. I can’t remember which.

    Avid rock fans and supporters of the Morrison Gallery, we own several iconic photos of Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, Jerry Garcia and Bob Dylan and George Harrison.

    We thought long and hard but just couldn’t pull the trigger on the Springsteen photo at that amount.

    A couple of months later we were back in the gallery and the photo was now going for $6,000 a pop.

    “Who would pay that?” I asked.

    “Well, Bruce Willis was in here the other day and he bought two of them just like it was nothing,” I was told.

    Anyway, Springsteen, 61, will be the subject of the documentary, “The Promise: The Making of ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ tonight on HBO. Here’s a New York Times story about it.

    Also, the Morrison Hotel Gallery is featuring a special Springsteen exhibit Oct. 15 which you can read about here.

    If you’re a rock ‘n’ roll fan and have never been to this gallery, I can’t recommend it enough.

    Even if you don’t drop $2,000 per iconic photo.

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    Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle. A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.

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