Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bruce Springsteen, shown during the "Born to Run" tour in 1975, tinkered with the album until the very last minute, Peter Ames ...

Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an "existential moment" for Springsteen: "If this didn't work, he was done."... Springsteen's label was about to drop him. Then came ...

It was the summer of 1974, and Bruce Springsteen was in the shit. Sure, the now 23-year-old had been signed to the legendary Columbia Records label a couple of years earlier. And signed by the ...

Summer means sunshine, the Jersey Shore, and Springsteen. With 2025 marking the 50th anniversary of “Born to Run,” one of rock’s greatest albums (arguing is futile), Peter Ames Carlin dove into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Springsteen on “Jungleland”: “You don’t know how it came out of you, and you’ll never do it again” Carlin spends a good chunk of ...

In the waning months of 1973, Bruce Springsteen’s career was in doubt. His first two albums with Columbia Records — “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.” and “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street ...

In “Tonight in Jungleland,” Mr. Carlin, the author of a 2012 biography of Mr. Springsteen, revisits the creation of his subject’s 1975 album, “Born to Run,” whose title track was exactly what Columbia ...

Bruce Springsteen’s “Jungleland” has been ranked No. 298 in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” The recognition brings renewed attention to one of the most ambitious rock songs of the ...