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Bruce Springsteen
Artist Icon Born to Run (1975)
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Born to Run ist ein Rockalbum des amerikanischen Sängers und Songwriters Bruce Springsteen, das 1975 veröffentlicht wurde.

Bruce Springsteens drittes Album, Born to Run, war sein Durchbruch in den USA und weltweit. Ernest „Boom“ Carter und David Sancious verließen die Band, nachdem sie den Titelsong Born To Run aufgenommen hatten. Nach einem Casting von etwa 30 Schlagzeugern und 30 Pianisten wurden Roy Bittan und Max Weinberg in die Band aufgenommen. Ebenso wurde Steven Van Zandt während der Arbeiten an dem Album ein offizielles Mitglied der E Street Band. Obwohl Springsteens erste beiden Alben Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. und The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle gute Kritiken bekommen hatten, war der kommerzielle Erfolg ausgeblieben. Somit stand Bruce Springsteen unter enormen Druck, während er Born To Run aufnahm, da ein eventueller Misserfolg das Ende seiner Plattenkarriere hätte sein können.

Born To Run ist außerdem für seinen Wall of Sound bekannt. Das bedeutet, dass die Songs eine enorme Dichte haben (Piano, Glockenspiel, Saxophon, Gitarren, Bläser, Drums, Bass, Fender Rhodes, Tamburin, Streicher, Synthesizer). Springsteen wollte laut eigener Aussage, dass sich Born To Run so anhört, als ob Roy Orbison die Songs von Bob Dylan singen würde.

Das Konzept des Albums ist das Thema Flucht (aus dem alten Leben zu fliehen und woanders neu anzufangen). Dieses Thema zieht sich durch das gesamte Album. Springsteen sagte dazu: „'Born To Run' hat die Stimmung eines endlosen Sommerabends. Die ganze Platte hat diese Atmosphäre. Es könnte sich alles an einem einzigen Abend ereignen und an all diesen unterschiedlichen Orten. All diese verschiedenen Geschichten an einem einzigen langen Sommerabend.“

Nach der Veröffentlichung erreichte das Album Position 3 der Billboard-Charts und konnte sich mehr als zwei Jahre in den Top 100 halten. Born To Run brachte Springsteen in derselben Woche auf das Cover der Times („Die neue Sensation des Rock“) und der Newsweek („Ein Rockstar wird geboren“). Bis zum Jahr 2006 wurden mehr als sechs Millionen Alben verkauft, so dass das Album Springsteens am zweithäufigsten verkauftes Studioalbum nach Born in the U.S.A. ist.
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Born To Run’s eight songs run to less than 40 minutes in length, but comprise a whole as satisfying as a portion of exquisitely rich chocolate cake. It seems Springsteen truly went for broke in 1975 after his first two albums had been critically well-received but less so commercially. Music critic Jon Landau became his producer and joined Bruce with his E-Street band in the studio to make what remains a classic, honest musical expression of hope, dreams and survival.

The colossal wall of sound production would make Phil Spector proud. Clarence Clemons’ triumphant yet bittersweet saxophone wailing and Roy Bittan’s nagging piano riffs augment the tough Telecaster guitar sound, while chiming glockenspiel and Max Weinberg’s drumming cement the heady mix.

Lyrically, it’s a dramatic collection of blue-collar tales of love and making ends meet that could only come from New Jersey’s favourite son. He clearly took a few ideas from storytellers like Van Morrison and Bob Dylan but also forged his own uplifting style. In ''Meeting Across The River'', a street tale Lou Reed would be proud of, listeners can ponder on a great deluded hustler’s line: 'That two grand’s practically sitting here in my pocket.' ''Thunder Road'' meanwhile, is almost effortlessly cinematic. In two lines there’s imagery more striking than most songwriters can manage on a whole album: 'In the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets… Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet.' On the excellent title track familiar BS motifs are returned to, particularly running away and the allure of fast cars, 'Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected and stepping out over the line…We gotta get out while we’re young.' Few tunesmiths can make a bad situation sound so good.

Like Ry Cooder, over a lengthy career the working-class NJ hero has proved himself to be a remarkably versatile operator. He’s taken on rootsy American folk material, written about 9/11 and, of course, had gargantuan commercial success with Born In The USA. Contemporary bands are never slow in praising him and his influence is still keenly felt. In songwriting terms alone Arcade Fire, REM and Mercury Rev have all clearly borrowed his ideas down the years and it’s unlikely they’ll be the last.



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