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 ...

This story originally appeared in the Asbury Park Press on Aug. 20, 2025. It was a full Circuit moment. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played a majestic version of “Born to Run” on Sept. 15, ...

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, ...

The post Ranking the Album: Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run appeared first on Consequence. So for this installment of Ranking the Album, I’d like to put the grown-up critic in me to sleep and let my ...

The stakes were never higher for Bruce Springsteen than they were in 1975, the year his classic album "Born to Run" hit record stores and radio waves. Though it was only the rocker's third studio ...

For Bruce Springsteen, this is a fine time for a look back even as he continues a European tour with his E Street band. That’s because Aug. 26 marks the 50th anniversary of The Boss’s breakthrough ...

Bruce Springsteen was always shooting for the stars. In his 2016 memoir, he talks about making plans for world domination with his first boss, early 1970s manager Mike Appel. “We weren’t aiming for a ...

"Born to Run" was released Aug. 25, 1975. The album was written by Springsteen in a rented bungalow on West End Court in the West End section of Long Branch. The permanent location for the Archives is ...

Bruce Springsteen's unreleased song vault is a source of seemingly infinite wonders. Just two months after releasing seven shelved albums on Tracks II: The Lost Albums, Springsteen has gone back into ...

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 ...

Two New Jersey icons are marking their golden anniversaries by coming together for a good cause. To mark the 50th anniversary of rocker Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run,” the Community FoodBank of New ...