Born to Run

Born to Run

by Bruce Springsteen
Born to Run

Born to Run

by Bruce Springsteen

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Overview

The revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen: “Glorious...a philosophically rich ramble through a rock ’n roll life...It’s the lyric he was born to write” (USA TODAY, 4 out of 4 stars).

Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life. The result is “an utterly unique, endlessly exhilarating, last-chance-power-drive of a memoir” (Rolling Stone) that offers the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.

He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work.

Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (“Thunder Road,” “Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River” “Born in the U.S.A,” “The Rising,” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.

“Both an entertaining account of Springsteen’s marathon race to the top and a reminder that the one thing you can’t run away from is yourself” (Entertainment Weekly), Born to Run is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This book is a “a virtuoso performance, the 508-page equivalent to one of Springsteen and the E Street Band's famous four-hour concerts: Nothing is left onstage, and diehard fans and first-timers alike depart for home sated and yet somehow already aching for more” (NPR).

Product Details

Release Date: 06/16/2015
Label: Columbia / Legacy / Sony Music
UPC: 0888750987525
Rank: 31124

Tracks

  1. Thunder Road
  2. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
  3. Night
  4. Backstreets
  5. Born to Run
  6. She's the One
  7. Meeting Across the River
  8. Jungleland

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Bruce Springsteen   Primary Artist,Harmonica,Horn (Alto),Lead Vocals,Bass,Guitar,Vocals
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band   Primary Artist
Richard Davis   Guest Artist,Bass
David Sancious   Guest Artist,Keyboards
Max Weinberg   Guest Artist,Drums
Clarence Clemons   Guest Artist,Vocals,Saxophone,Sax (Tenor)
Steven Van Zandt   Guest Artist,Vocals (Background),Guitar,Vocals,Horn (Alto)
David Sanborn   Guest Artist,Saxophone,Sax (Bass),Sax (Baritone)
Randy Brecker   Guest Artist,Horn,Trumpet,Flugelhorn
Michael Brecker   Guest Artist,Horn,Sax (Tenor)
Charles Calello   Conductor,String Conductor
Danny Federici   Organ,Vocals,Keyboards
Suki Lahav   Violin
Garry Tallent   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Ernest Carter   Drums
Wayne Andre   Trombone
Mike Appel   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Roy Bittan   Organ,Piano,Keyboards,Harpsichord,Glockenspiel,Fender Rhodes,Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

Steven Van Zandt   Horn Arrangements
Corky Stasiak   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Charles Calello   String Arrangements
David Thoener   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Angie Arcuri   Assistant Engineer,Mixing Assistant
Eric Meola   Photography
John Berg   Design
Andy Engel   Design
Ricky Delena   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Andy Abrams   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Bob Ludwig   Remastering
The E Street Band   Group
Greg Calbi   Mastering
W.S. Stevenson   Composer
Jon Landau   Producer
Jimmy Iovine   Mixing,Engineer,Mixing Engineer
Mike Appel   Producer
Thom Panunzio   Mixing Assistant,Assistant Engineer
Bruce Springsteen   Arranger,Composer,Producer,Horn Arrangements
Louis Lahav   Engineer,Mixing Engineer
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