Bruce Springsteen to release seven 'lost' albums

American music icon Bruce Springsteen is set to release seven 'lost' albums with the majority of the 82 songs unheard, and written and recorded between 1983 and 2018.

'The Boss' confirmed the tracks are going to be made public this summer, having completed everything he had in his "vault" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Springsteen took to social media to announce the news, saying the the albums were "full of records". The collection will be released as a box set titled 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' in June. The set also includes a 100-page hardback book.

The album is the follow up to Springsteen's first Tracks volume - a collection of four CDs released in 1998.

Springsteen's last studio album was released in 2022. The star has sold more than 140 million records since 1973.