Born to Run

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. 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 lives in New Jersey with his family.. With disarming candor, 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. Author bio: Bruce Springsteen has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the New Jersey Hall of Fame. 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. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to this audio the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He is the recipient of 20 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. 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

"Intriguing look into the life and mind of The Boss, in his own words! How all his marvelous music came to be." according to Tell It Like It Is. If you have ever actually listened to the lyrics of most Springsteen songs (except maybe Waitin’ on a Sunny Day), you know that Bruce Springsteen is a really deep guy. There was a book published 15 years ago called Songs, which contained all the lyrics of every Springsteen so. "Clear look at Springsteen's ego and devils" according to brainstaples. This book was different than I expected. I read Bob Dylan's Chronicles a couple of years ago, and was struck by the artistic voice of the book. Dylan's voice in the book was beautiful prose. Born to Run is different in that it is more of a stream of consciousness of a series of eve. Born To Read Michael King Bruce Springsteen is the quintessential American songwriter, an impassioned singer, and a great guitarist. The same sensibility and demanding work ethic that he brought to writing song lyrics is evident in the pages of his autobiography. His recollections of details from his early