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}} "Bobby Jean" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, from his 1984 album ''Born in the U.S.A.'' Although not released as a single, it reached #36 on the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. ==History== "Bobby Jean" was one of the last songs from the album to be recorded,〔 and was considered a musical breakthrough for Springsteen during the recording, with its more accented rhythm and near dance groove.〔Marsh, Dave. ''Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s''. Pantheon Books, 1987. ISBN 0-394-54668-7. p. 168.〕 The title character's name is somewhat gender ambiguous,〔Rob Kirkpatrick, ''The Words and Music of Bruce Springsteen'', Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006. p. 101.〕 allowing for various interpretations. Nonetheless, "Bobby Jean" is often considered to have been written about his long-time friendship with Steve Van Zandt, who was leaving the E Street Band at the time:〔 For example, Swedish journalist Richard Ohlsson made the interpretation in his book ''Bruce Springsteen: 16 Album'' that the title contained both a male and a female name because "the friendship with Bobby Jean is so strong that it's almost a kind of love." When this song is played live with the E Street Band, close ups of Van Zandt are often shown on the bigscreens. :''Now you hung with me, when all the others turned away ... turned up their nose :''We liked the same music — we liked the same bands — we liked the same clothes :''We told each other, that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen ... The lyric turns to deeper emotions, which Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh characterized as "lines that mingle love, grief, and rancor",〔 with the chorus summing: :''Now I wished you would have told me — :''I wished I could have talked to you — :''Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean ... At the conclusion, Springsteen imagines the song's subject hearing the very song in a motel room, as Roy Bittan's piano riff that drives the song yields to a saxophone coda from Clarence Clemons and the recording fades out. Marsh suggests that Springsteen was not singing a farewell just to Van Zandt, but also to his own depressed ''Nebraska'' self.〔 Nevertheless, use of minor to major altered chord in the last parts of the chorus lend the song a spirit of generosity.〔Rikky Rooksby, ''Bruce Springsteen: Learn from the Greats and Write Better Songs'', Backbeat Books, 2005. p. 61.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bobby Jean」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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