The following story was part of a special section on Bruce Springsteen, published in the Asbury Park Press on Aug. 18, 1985. "I stood stone-like at midnight, suspended in my masquerade, I combed my ...
Springsteen's early music was rooted in the specific textures of working-class life — factory towns, dead-end jobs, and Friday nights with nowhere to go. Born to Run landed in 1975 as something more ...