I was 18 when Bruce Springsteen’s third album, “Born to Run,” was released 50 years ago, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. I’d just finished my freshman year in college, and I was lost. My ...

Peter Ames Carlin first heard Bruce Springsteen’s single “Born to Run” in 1975 when the future music biographer was a 12-year-old kid in a car headed home from a hike with his Boy Scout troop. He was, ...

It is one of the enduring images of rock history: a black and white portrait of a tousle-haired, leather jacket-wearing Bruce Springsteen, his Fender Telecaster slung over his shoulder as he leans ...

Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an "existential moment" for Springsteen: "If this didn't work, he was done."... Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking album, Born to ...

In the waning months of 1973, Bruce Springsteen’s career was in doubt. His first two albums with Columbia Records — “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.” and “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Louis P. Masur, Rutgers University (THE CONVERSATION) I was 18 when Bruce ...

As any music critic knows, revealing fresh insight about work so prominent as to have become one with a bygone era’s zeitgeist is challenging in the extreme. Bruce Springsteen’s 1975-released magnum ...

Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking album, Born to Run, came out 50 years ago this month, marking a turning point for rock and roll — and for Springsteen. Before he recorded that album, Springsteen's ...