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Reading an autobiography by one of the true giants of rock and roll is not the most painful activity in the world. Even if said book is poorly written or dips into celebrity tell-all territory—or if, as is the case here, it runs 500+ pages—the reader still gets, at bare minimum the full story from-the-horse’s mouth, juicy tidbits about the music itself, and a rendering of a life that most of us can only dream about leading (not to mention nostalgia and all forms of vicarious delight). The wonderful thing about Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen’s memoir from the fall of 2016, is its authenticity. This did not exactly come as a surprise. What I have always admired about The Boss is his unvarnished, everyman quality. Even as a kid growing up listening to Born in the U.S.A., his showiest, most commercial album, I could sense this. Unlike some of his contemporaries Springsteen never embraced stagey gimmicks or cloying drum machines or anything close to a Hollywood ethos. What you saw is what you got.

Ditto his memoir.Born to Run strikes the right balance between the two extr

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Born To Run

Writing about yourself is a funny business But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this. Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run

In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began.

Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages 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

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Born to Run

May 23, 2021

Bruce Springsteen's autobiography had been sitting on my shelf five years or so--a short time by my standards--and after reading "The Best and the Brightest" and "Middlemarch" I decided it was time for some lighter fare.

Let me say from the outset that I'm not a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. My CD collection includes 8 Springsteen albums, and his "Born to Run" album is not one of them; my Spotify list has 50"liked" Springsteen songs and I have sixteen of Bruce's songs on my ITunes (yes, I still have that, too). FWIW, my favorite and most played is "Thunder Road."

But I came of age in the 70's, and so did Bruce Springsteen. I became aware of him in 1973 with the release of "The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle," his second album. It was his third record, "Born to Run," that propelled him to stardom and international fame. It was a damn good album that rocked! Springsteen's songs about working-class dreamers scrambling for a piece of the American dream were infused with soul, lyricism and had an energy that appealed to a wide swath of American