Bruce Springsteen Dresses Up Like Devil & Has A Lovely Sing-Song
Bruce Springsteen really loves Halloween - he loves it more than songs with the word 'born' in the title and he loves it more than muttering about AIDS. In fact, Bruce Springsteen loves Halloween so much that he's decided to dress up as the devil and release a brand new vaguely spooky song entitled A Night With The Jersey Devil on his website for free, just because today happens to be Halloween.
It's a clever move. And it's prompted other old rockers to follow - next week
Rod Stewart will release a song called Bonfire Night (Of My Heart) on his website, followed by
Huey Lewis posting a song called I Give Thanks To You, Baby on November 27 and then
Elton John releasing Woo, It's The International Year Of Astronomy! on January 15, just because he couldn't wait an extra month and do one for Valentine's Day, the impatient sod.
Awesome Or Off-Putting: The Jersey Devil
Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, aliens, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, EVPs, myths, ancient artifacts, religion, strange facts, odd sightings or just the plain unexplainable.
This week:
Cryptozoology/Odd Sightings Cryptozoology has a stuffed-full menu of weird creatures that have had dozens of sightings all over the world.
The Jersey Devil has got to be one of the best known, but it seems it's sightings don't happen quite as much as others in its great big monster family. Once though, almost a hundred years ago, a whole bunch of firemen hosed one right off a roof.
Then it attacked a dog and got shot at by police. Quite an experience from all we've read.