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How Bruce Springsteen's 'Born to Run' Speaks to America's Psyche
Bruce Springsteen's1975 "Born to Run" album was shaped by the times, particularly the malaise of the post-Vietnam and post-Watergate American landscape. There was an energy crisis, and it wasn’t only oil that was in short supply. These lyrical, operatic songs about freedom and fate, triumph and tragedy, still resonate, even though today’s music is more likely to emphasize beats, samples and software than extended guitar and saxophone solos. The …
The album "Born to Run" marks Bruce Springsteen's (76) commercial breakthrough as a rock star: With its release in 1975, he suddenly became world famous. But for himself, the new fame brought not only advantages. Rather, the singer, who is now considered one of the greatest in his industry, looks critically at the success of that time. "It makes you very, very different from all the people you grew up with. [...] It's a very distorted lens by wh…
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