New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's "The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts" project brings to life one of "the world's best ever rock performances" (Times UK), and its release has been met by major excitement worldwide from fans and reviewers alike. The soundtrack album for "No Nukes" has earned Top 10 chart positions in over a dozen countries on four continents, accompanying a film deemed "the best representation of a Seventies Springsteen concert ever captured" by Rolling Stone. These chart positions include a #2 showing on Billboard's Top Rock Albums and #6 on Billboard's Top Albums overall, as well as notable international debuts at #3 in Spain, #4 in the Netherlands, #6 in Australia and #7 in Japan.
"A flawless, herculean 90-minute set." - LA Times
"A vehicle for transcendence...a distinctive blend of magic and might. It's the sound of a bar band delivering communion." - Pitchfork (named 'Best New Reissue')
"If a Springsteen concert is a spiritual experience, this film captures the gospel of Bruce...it's the E Street Band at their most heart-stopping, pants-dropping and hard-rocking." - Entertainment Weekly
"The power and majesty of the E Street Band combined with youthful exuberance for a truly epic concert experience." - Associated Press
"This immediately becomes the gold standard for Springsteen concert footage from the 1970s." - USA Today
"The E Street sound here is enormous, vulnerable and alive — just like rock 'n' roll should sound." - Asbury Park Press
"The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts" film and album feature
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's entire thirteen-song setlist from the Madison
Square Garden MUSE benefit concerts, including footage of ten never-before-released performances from within its crackling 90 minutes. Edited from the original 16mm film by longtime Springsteen collaborator Thom Zimny alongside remixed audio from Bob Clearmountain, "No Nukes" marks the highest quality and best recorded Springsteen performances from an explosive, ascendant and rarely-filmed era of the E Street Band.
