That’s the great secret of “Born to Run.” It’s a song about wanting to leave while staying put, your heels slowly digging into the sand. it holds up,' said Tom Cunningham, a disc jockey who has hosted a Springsteen-themed radio show for 18 years, the last three with 'Springsteen on Sunday' on the Neptune, New Jersey-based station 107.1 The Boss. 'There's so much truth in that song that it will always stand the test of time.'

Tanya Breen and Alex Biese, Asbury Park Press “Whatever bigness he foresaw before we went into the studio, he was now realizing in real time and real life the monster sound that it was going to end up being,” said Mike Appel, Springsteen's former manager and the album's co-producer. The song is the mission statement for the entire record, if not Springsteen’s entire career up until its release. One glorious noise … then the apocalypse,” Springsteen wrote in his 2016 autobiography, 'Born to Run.' “I wanted to craft a record that sounded like the last record on Earth, like the last record you might hear … the last one you’d ever NEED to hear. There’s a time and a place for the soft, mood-building piano. The rest of the band does what they rarely do in Springsteen’s music and just holds a note, letting the guitar shine while drummer Ernest “Boom” Carter plays eight bars of nothing but toms and bass drum in one big crescendo.Įnough of the harmonica. With a drumfill that sounds straight out of “Wipeout' and a simple five-note guitar lick that's almost lyrical, you're off to the races with 'Born to Run' before you've even taken a breath. This audio enhanced story is best with headphones.

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