The Boss to release 5 tracks with book

The Boss to release 5 tracks with book

NEW YORK

Songs Bruce Springsteen recorded in the 1960s and early ’70s will be released in September.

Five previously unreleased tracks from The Boss will be released Sept. 23 on a companion album to the icon’s autobiography, “Born to Run,” which will be released Sept. 27.

The compilation album “Chapter and Verse” will include the unreleased songs “Baby I” and “You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover,” recorded in 1966 and 1967 when Springsteen was a teenager in the band The Castiles. The album will feature the unreleased tracks “He’s Guilty [The Judge Song]” (1970), “Ballad of Jesse James” (1972) and “Henry Boy” (1972).

The 18-track album also will include well-known songs such as “Born to Run,” “The River,” “Born In the U.S.A.” and “The Rising.”

You want your MTV? It’s back – on VH1

NEW YORK

MTV is rebranding VH1 Classic as MTV Classic and says the channel plans to serve up heaps of nostalgia for fans of “Beavis and Butt-head,” “Daria,” “Total Request Live” and other MTV staples.

MTV says the channel will have “a special focus on the 1990s and early 2000s.” In addition to full-season marathons of “The Real World,” “Road Rules” and “Laguna Beach,” MTV says the channel will feature prime-time programming blocks that include episodes of “Cribs,” “Jackass,” “Punk’d” and others. “MTV Unplugged” episodes that MTV says haven’t been aired in years also will be rerun.

MTV Classic will debut Monday – 35 years to the day of MTV’s debut. It’s first show will be “MTV Hour One,” a rebroadcast of MTV’s first hour of programming from 1981.

Associated Press