Bruce Springsteen Almost Lost His Record Deal. Then He Made ‘Born to Run’

Bruce Springsteen almost lost his record deal. Then he made ‘Born to Run’

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, he admits, less than impressed. “I remember the disc jockey saying, ‘Well, this guy is supposedly the savior of rock and roll. Let’s see how it sounds,’” Carlin says on a recent phone call. “He played it, and it was like it didn’t sound like everyt…

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Springsteen’s label was about to drop him. Then came ‘Born to Run’ – Knowhere News

This month marks 50 years since the release of Bruce Springsteen’s seminal album, Born to Run, which was a watershed for both Springsteen and rock and roll. Because of the poor sales of his first two critically lauded albums, Springsteen’s record label, Columbia, was about to fire him before he recorded that album. The creation of Born to Run is described by biographer Peter Ames Carlinde as a “existential moment” for Springsteen. Carlin states,…