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“Writing about oneself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made a promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I have tried to do that.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of
Born to Run
In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography came to be.
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages 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 “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on
The Ed Sullivan Show . He recounts candidly 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 disheartening candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal blows that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than previously realized.
Born to Run will be eye-opening to anyone who ever liked Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a memoir of the legendary rock star. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and lovers, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the sacred river of rock and roll.
Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (“Thunder Road,” “Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,” “Born in the USA,” “The Rising,” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen's autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.
