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Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

By Bruce Springsteen

Release Date: 2016-09-27

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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The revealing, wildly entertaining, and bestselling memoir from the legendary Bruce Springsteen, one of the greatest songwriters and performers of any era. Born to Run is the greatest rock ā€˜nā€™ roll story ever told.

Essential reading for the 50th anniversary of Springsteenā€™s seminal album Born to Run, the long-awaited release of Nebraska ā€™82, and a companion to the acclaimed film Deliver Me from Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong, about the writing and recording of Springsteenā€™s classic Nebraska record.

Following his 2009 Super Bowl halftime performance, Bruce Springsteen privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life. The result is ā€œan utterly unique, endlessly exhilarating, last-chance-power-drive of a memoirā€ (Rolling Stone) that offers the same honesty, humor, 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 ā€œThe Big Bangā€: seeing Elvis Presleyā€™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 candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work.

Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (ā€œThunder Road,ā€ ā€œBadlands,ā€ ā€œDarkness on the Edge of Town,ā€ ā€œThe Riverā€ ā€œBorn in the USA,ā€ ā€œThe Rising,ā€ and ā€œThe Ghost of Tom Joad,ā€ to name just a few), Bruce Springsteenā€™s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.

ā€œBoth an entertaining account of Springsteenā€™s marathon race to the top and a reminder that the one thing you canā€™t run away from is yourselfā€ (Entertainment Weekly), Born to Run is much more than a legendary rock starā€™s memoir. This book is a ā€œa virtuoso performance, the 508-page equivalent to one of Springsteen and the E Street Bandā€™s famous four-hour concerts: Nothing is left onstage, and diehard fans and first-timers alike depart for home sated and yet somehow already aching for moreā€ (NPR).

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

By Bruce Springsteen

Release Date: 2016-09-27

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

4.5 (1,064 ratings)
Read Download
The revealing, wildly entertaining, and bestselling memoir from the legendary Bruce Springsteen, one of the greatest songwriters and performers of any era. Born to Run is the greatest rock ā€˜nā€™ roll story ever told.

Essential reading for the 50th anniversary of Springsteenā€™s seminal album Born to Run, the long-awaited release of Nebraska ā€™82, and a companion to the acclaimed film Deliver Me from Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong, about the writing and recording of Springsteenā€™s classic Nebraska record.

Following his 2009 Super Bowl halftime performance, Bruce Springsteen privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life. The result is ā€œan utterly unique, endlessly exhilarating, last-chance-power-drive of a memoirā€ (Rolling Stone) that offers the same honesty, humor, 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 ā€œThe Big Bangā€: seeing Elvis Presleyā€™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 candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work.

Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (ā€œThunder Road,ā€ ā€œBadlands,ā€ ā€œDarkness on the Edge of Town,ā€ ā€œThe Riverā€ ā€œBorn in the USA,ā€ ā€œThe Rising,ā€ and ā€œThe Ghost of Tom Joad,ā€ to name just a few), Bruce Springsteenā€™s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.

ā€œBoth an entertaining account of Springsteenā€™s marathon race to the top and a reminder that the one thing you canā€™t run away from is yourselfā€ (Entertainment Weekly), Born to Run is much more than a legendary rock starā€™s memoir. This book is a ā€œa virtuoso performance, the 508-page equivalent to one of Springsteen and the E Street Bandā€™s famous four-hour concerts: Nothing is left onstage, and diehard fans and first-timers alike depart for home sated and yet somehow already aching for moreā€ (NPR).

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