Bruce Springsteen - Because The Night

About "Because The Night"

"Because the Night" is a rock song written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith that appears on the Patti Smith Group album Easter, which was released in 1978. On March 2, 1978, the song was released as a single, and was commercially successful, reaching No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and No. 5 in the United Kingdom, which helped propel Easter to mainstream success.

The song has been covered by several artists. In 1993, a live acoustic version was recorded by 10,000 Maniacs, featuring Natalie Merchant, for MTV Unplugged. This version reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the highest charting version of the song in the U.S. The song also became 10,000 Maniacs highest charting single in the U.S. and Canada.

In 1987, the song was ranked No. 116 on NME magazine's list of "The Top 150 Singles of All Time". It remains the best-known song of Smith's catalog. In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 358 on "Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The Independent listed the song as one of the ten best new wave singles of 1978.



Top songs by Bruce Springsteen

Albums by Bruce Springsteen

Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973)
Born to Run (1975)
Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
The River (1980)
Nebraska (1982)
Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
Live 1975–85 (1985)
Tunnel of Love (1987)
In Concert-MTV Plugged (1992)
Human Touch (1992)
Lucky Town (1992)
The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
Live in New York City (2001)
The Rising (2002)
Devils & Dust (2005)
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006)
Hammersmith Odeon London '75 (2006)
Magic (2007)
Live in Dublin (2007)
Working on a Dream (2009)
Wrecking Ball (2012)
High Hopes (2014)
Springsteen on Broadway (2018)
Western Stars (2019)
Letter to You (2020)
The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts (2021)
Only the Strong Survive (2022)

More about Bruce Springsteen music

INFO BIO DISCOGRAPHY

"Because The Night" video by Bruce Springsteen is property and copyright of its owners and it's embedded from Youtube.
Information about the song "Because The Night" is automatically taken from Wikipedia. It may happen that this information does not match with "Because The Night".
SONGSTUBE is against piracy and promotes safe and legal music downloading. Music on this site is for the sole use of educational reference and is the property of respective authors, artists and labels. If you like Bruce Springsteen songs on this site, please buy them on Itunes, Amazon and other online stores. All other uses are in violation of international copyright laws. This use for educational reference, falls under the "fair use" sections of U.S. copyright law.