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It sometimes seems like the world and his wife have written their memoirs; but Born to Run, the autobiography of captivating singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, is probably unlike anything you've seen before. The epic, five-hundred-page tome took the Dancing in the Dark singer seven years to write and has just been dropped on the world as a surprise grand finale to a successful year of touring.
In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began.
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, humour, and originality found in his songs.
He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fuelled 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 vividly recounts 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 disarming candour, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized.
Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star's memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll.
Bruce reveals intimate details about his career, his childhood, his relationship with women and a life spent largely on the road. But this isn't your typical autobiographical chapter story. Having led such an eventful life, many of his best anecdotes have been told before; so instead, readers are treated to a more thoughtful, understated insight into the mind of this unique star. It's less of a big flashy stadium concert, and more of an intimate private gig.
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- Contributor: Bruce Springsteen
- Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781471157820
- Number of Pages: 528
- Packaged Dimensions: 130x198x32mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Release Date: 2017-09-05
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Bruce Springsteen's recording career spans more than 40 years. He has released 18 studio albums, garnered 20 Grammy Awards, won an Oscar, and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His newest album, High Hopes, was released in January 2014.
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