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 ...

Bruce Springsteen performs in Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1975, during the 'Born to Run' tour. Tom Hill/WireImage via Getty Images I was 18 when Bruce Springsteen’s third album, “Born to Run,” was released 50 ...

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, ...

Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking album, Born to Run, came out 50 years ago this month, marking a turning point for rock and roll — and for Springsteen. Before he recorded that album, Springsteen's ...

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 ...

It is one of the enduring images of rock history: a black and white portrait of a tousle-haired, leather jacket-wearing Bruce Springsteen, his Fender Telecaster slung over his shoulder as he leans ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s a rock and roll story that’s never been told. It’s a New York City summer day in 1975 and Bruce Springsteen is trying on an old leather motorcycle jacket his manager Mike Appel wore as a teen ...

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."... Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking album, Born to ...