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Bruce born to run5/30/2023 The writing process for the third record was grueling, but Springsteen had a particularly difficult time finding precisely the right lyrics for the pivotal first single. In spite of the pressures building around him, it was here that Springsteen would craft his breakthrough album, Born to Run. On the heels of the disappointing commercial performance of his first two albums, Greetings from Ashbury Park (1973) and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973), many in the music industry had written him off as a local phenomenon-a performer who had built a small following on the east coast, but who would never break through to the mainstream. In early 1974, a 26 year-old Bruce Springsteen was barely getting by, living in a small house in West Long Branch, New Jersey working on his third album under the watchful eye of record executives. The birth of an essential American anthem: an early version of "Born to Run" "Born to Run" working manuscript, Īutograph manuscript lyrics, 2 pages (216 x 280 mm) on a single sheet of ruled notepaper, comprising 26 lines written in blue ink and then black felt tip, being an early working draft of "Born to Run," with superscript and marginal notations.
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