Born to run / Bruce Springsteen.
Springsteen, Bruce, author.
2016
ML420.S77 A3 2016 (Mapit)
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Title Born to run / Bruce Springsteen.
Author Springsteen, Bruce, author.
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
ISBN 9781501141515 (hardcover)
1501141511 (hardcover)
9781501141539 (electronic book)
1501141538 (electronic book)
Published New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description xii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number ML420.S77 A3 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 782.42166092 B
Summary In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s half-time 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, humour, 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 candour, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. 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.
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I. Growin' up :
1. My street
2. My house
3. The Church
4. The Italians
5. The Irish
6. My mother
7. The Big Bang (have you heard the news ... )
8. Radio days
9. The Second Coming
10. The show man (Lord of the Dance)
11. Workingman's blues 12. Where the bands are
13. The Castiles
14. Once there was a little Steven
15. Earth
16. The Upstage Club
17. Tinker (Surfin' safari)
18. Steel mill
19. Homecoming
20. Endless summer
21. Beatnik deluxe
22. California dreamin' (take two)
23. It's a bar, you idiots
24. Onward and upward
25. Losing my religion
26. Road work
27. "The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle"
28. The Satellite Lounge
II. Born to run :
29. "Born to run"
30. Jon Landau
31. Thunder Road
32. Jackpot
33. The E Street Band
34. Clarence Clemons
35. New contracts
36. Living with the law
37. "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
38. The Drop
39. Downtime
40. "The River"
41. Hitsville
42. Hello walls
43. "Nebraska"
44. Deliver me from nowhere
45. California
46. "Born in the USA"
47. "Buona fortuna, fratello mio"
48. The big Big Time
49. Going home
50. "Regresar a México"
51. "Tunnel of love"
52. Goin' Cali
III. Living proof :
53. Living proof
Redheaded revolution
54. Changes
55. LA burning
56. Going to the chapel
57. Earthquake Sam
58. "Streets of Philadelphia"
59. "The Ghost of Tom Joad"
60. Western man
61. Eastern woman
62. King of New Jersey (Hollywood days)
63. Bringing it all back home
64. Revival
65. "The Rising"
66. Wild East
67. The Seeger sessions
68. "Magic"
69. Super Bowl Sunday
70. Moving on
71. "Wrecking Ball"
72. Losing the rain
73. The "Wrecking Ball" tour
74. Zero to sixty in nothing flat
75. Garage land
76. "High hopes"
77. Home front
78. Long time comin'.

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