ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2008 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved April 29, 2022. Springsteen and his first manager Mike Appel recorded the album at the low-priced, out-of-the-way 914 Sound Studios to save as much as possible of the Columbia Records advance, and cut most of the songs during the last week of June 1972. [6] [1]

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Ultimately, Manzoor is a true Springsteen devotee, and unashamedly a proud one. You may not share its perspective on the Boss, but Greetings from Bury Park vibrantly displays a modest and unpretentious sense of optimism, and offers the hope that by connecting with our own choices in music we can transcend cultural and generational differences to reach personal freedom without denying our need to belong. The age-old immigrant’s story of hungry hearts and divided loyalties is delivered with uncommon honesty and understanding.” —Pico Iyer, Time(Europe) British album certifications – Bruce Springsteen – Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." British Phonographic Industry.My father had an official birthdate but I do not know when he was born. Officially Mohammed Manzoor was born on 1 April 1933. The month of his birth was almost certainly incorrect but the actual year was also possibly wrong. The lives of villagers living in rural India in the thirties were not considered important enough to be recorded with much detail or accuracy. My mother, Rasool Bibi, was distantly related to my father. She lived in Paharang, a village near what is now Faisalabad, while my father was from the village of Tuttha Musa, near Gujrat. My mother's father owned a store which sold fruit and vegetables. His father and grandfather were both in the army. Her official birthday is 1 August 1933 but again, she does not know the true month or year that she was born. She was the youngest of five sisters and one brother. Summary: Tender, touching and clear-sighted, Greetings From Bury Park is an illuminating perspective on what it means to be British, Muslim and of Pakistani heritage, but perhaps even more it's the story of the pleasures and pains in father-son relationships, whatever the nationality, religion or cultural identity. A lovely read. Usually five thousand pounds but there's a chance I can do it for free - they have special bursaries.'

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Charming and affectionate. . . . [ Greetings from Bury Park] rises above the predictable coming-of-age genre on the strength of Manzoor's unflinching honesty and his unique world view. . . . [Manzoor] poignantly shows how he comes to admire the life his father led even though it wasn't what he chose. . . . You don't have to be a Springsteen fan to enjoy this book or understand Manzoor's devotion. You just have to recall a time when you were still open enough that music had the power to shatter the world view you inherited.”— The Miami Herald The looming prospect of an arranged marriage again sends Manzoor scurrying off to Bruce for guidance: "My ideal girl would be someone to whom I could play 'Born to Run'." And when the events of 9/11 and 7/7 intrude, we are reminded about the restrictive and ritualistic way in which he had been brought up as a Muslim. Though it seems strange, we find ourselves understanding how he could have come to feel that "Bruce Springsteen gave me more persuasive answers than Islam".

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Goldstein, Stan (November 15, 2009). "Bruce Springsteen to play the entire 'Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.' album in Buffalo". nj.com . Retrieved 16 November 2009. Manzoor has written for Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The Observer, Prospect, The Spectator, Uncut, [16] Marie Claire and The Times. Bruce Springsteen– lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboards, handclaps, bass guitar on “Blinded by the Light” and “Spirit in the Night” While Springsteen wrote his song and belatedly rebuilt his relationship with his father before he died, Manzoor wrote his too late. Even though I never had a troubled relationship with my father, Manzoor's poignant statement that "Sons never get over losing their fathers" (p. 53) resonates with me strongly because it has been just over a year since my father died. He goes on to express that aching loss of opportunity: This autobiography, which in the not so distant future will be known by its film name, "Blinded by the Light" is about finding your identity as a minority in a 'white' dominated country. Although Manzoor's story is one that focuses on his British Pakistani identity growing up in Luton in the 1970's and 1980's, it nonetheless is relatable to all those who have found themselves to have grown up "in-between" before the Internet Era. The longing that was expressed through music (in Manzoor's case, Bruce Springsteen) the desire to see other places and escape the stifling confines of Suburbia, traditions that "Whites" cannot understand, and every bit of exotic information was something to hoard and then share with friends.

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In so many ways, I almost wished Manzoor wrote this memoir 10 years later than when he first wrote it. Or maybe, he could write a follow up. This is one of those works that I strongly believed needed more time to be worked at and mulled over. And the gem of his work comes through in the screenplay and I only wished we got the same chance to experience it with his memoir. His voice, and presence feels so much more powerful with more distance from when his work was originally published. Springsteen Tour Of Europe A Triumph Covering 10 Nations" (PDF). Billboard. June 20, 1981. p.73. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved April 29, 2022. Javed is a reserved and quiet boy who from the outside who seems like a shell. On the inside however, he’s in turmoil. He’s depressed and his only outlet is his writing. Discouraged by his family, he at first places no value on his writing. But through the magic of Springsteen he begins to see how his life does have meaning and more importantly how he can create meaning for himself. Perhaps what makes this film incredibly moving is- Javed learns that being free does not necessarily have to mean a complete rejection of his Pakistani roots. He learns to accept his identity as a British boy is also inherently tied to being Pakistani. This felt particularly revolutionary considering the film is set 1987 Thatcherite Britain.Yet the comedy is marbled with genuine regret. The youthful Manzoor defines himself in opposition to his father. The possible resolution of this conflict - Sarfraz's success in the mistrusted world of the media - comes just too late; Mohammed Manzoor slipped from coma to death the very day his son's first professional assignment appeared in the Manchester Evening News. The opening chunk of this book thinks it's an exploration of difficult times and a tense relationship; in actuality it's a glowing, almost embarrassed tribute to a loving father who sacrificed everything to try and give his family a life better than that he'd known. It's simultaneously hugely personal and a set of feelings shared by the offspring of generations of such men who came to these shores from Ireland, eastern Europe and the subcontinent. 'His moral framework was underpinned by family, responsibility and pride.'