Like a university newspaper he saved Springsteen’s career

With if and with the but you don’t go anywhere, however, sometimes, it can be interesting to consider some facts. After his first two albums, “Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ” (Read the review here) And “The Wild, The Innocent & The and Street Shuffle” (Read the review here), both published in 1973, Bruce Springsteen and his And street band They were a set of worship along the eastern coast, or New Jersey and neighboring places, thanks to an intense live activity but, commercially speaking, the records they had published had not been exactly the successes.

At that point Springsteen knew that his relationship with Columbia Records was weakening more and more. After the change of management of the record label, the boss was even more uncertain about what his future would like to be like musician. In 2005 speaking to the Sunday Morning of his relationship with the CBS he said: “There were two records. Two errors, three errors, and you are out. Then, return to the starting point, or worse, you find yourself even more indebted.”

Destiny came into play here. The new head of the CBS Records Division, Irwin Segelsteinhad a son who frequented the university. The University newspaper published an article in which CBS was criticized because she wanted to cut Bruce Springsteen in favor of other most successful artists such as Billy Joel. Springsteen explained: “He brought the news at home, his father was now head of the CBS Records. He said to him: ‘Dad, who tell me about this guy?’

The record label agreed to finance another Springsteen album on condition that, if he hadn’t been successful, he would interrup the relationship with him. Bruce accepted and put himself at work on what he would become the title track of his third album, “Born to Run” (Read the review here). The title of the album first came: ‘Born to run’. “I liked it because it suggested a cinematographic drama that I thought would adapt to the music that I felt in my head. The song is a liberation. It is an expression of monotony, of the daily existence from which it evades,” said New Jersey’s rocker later. “This was the turning point. The key to writing the rest of the album was revealed.” We all know how the story went.