"It went through me like lightning": The song that transformed Bruce Springsteen

Before Bruce Springsteen became “The Boss” of American rock, there was an instant that changed the course of his life. It wasn’t a guitar, nor a particular show, nor a proposal. It was a song. The responsible one? A young Elvis Presley singing “Hound Dog.” That’s what Springsteen revealed in an interview with the BBC Radio’s Desert Island Discs program. “When I heard it, it crossed my brain like lightning,” he recalled. “I realized, suddenly, th…