Born to Run
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Publication |
August 25, 1975 |
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
39:22 |
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E Street Band :
Other musicians:
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Studio (s) |
Record Plant Studios in New York ; |
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Born to Run is a rock album by the American singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen , released in 1975.
meaning
Bruce Springsteen's third album, Born to Run , was his breakthrough in the US and around the world. Ernest "Boom" Carter and David Sancious left the band after recording the title track Born To Run . After a casting of around 30 drummers and 30 pianists, Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg were accepted into the band. It was also Steven Van Zandt an official member of the E Street Band during the work on the album. Although Springsteen's first two albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ and The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, had received good reviews, commercial success had failed. So Bruce Springsteen was under tremendous pressure while recording Born To Run , as failure could have spelled the end of his recording career.
Born To Run is also known for its Wall of Sound . This means that the songs have an enormous density (piano, glockenspiel, saxophone, guitars, wind instruments, drums, bass, Fender Rhodes, tambourine, strings, synthesizer). Springsteen wanted his own words, is that Born To Run so sounds as if Roy Orbison songs by Bob Dylan would sing.
The concept of the album is the theme of escape (to escape from the old life and start again somewhere else). This theme runs through the entire album. Springsteen said, “Born To Run has the mood of an endless summer evening. The whole record has that atmosphere. It could all happen in one evening and in all these different places. All these different stories on one long summer evening. "
After its release, the album reached position 3 on the Billboard charts and stayed in the top 100 for more than two years. Born To Run put Springsteen on the cover of The Times (“The New Rock Sensation”) and Newsweek (“A Rock Star Is Born”) that same week . More than six million albums were sold by 2006, making Springsteen's second best-selling studio album after Born in the USA .
Quotes
“All the characters from Born To Run are trying to escape. Thunder Road . An attempt to break free. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out , Night , Trying to Escape. Backstreets , someone escapes, another stays behind. Born to Run , I'm tryna escape All of these songs have this tension: someone is trying to find a new place. That was what Born To Run was based on. "
“I saw the future of rock 'n' roll and it's called Bruce Springsteen. He made me feel like listening to music for the first time. "
"I wanted to write mini epics"
“I think people reacted to the romance of the record and its innocence. I think everyone found part of their hopes and dreams in it "
“When I heard the album ['Born to Run'] I knew the problem of how to explain rock 'n' roll to an alien, its sound and themes, was finally solved. A skinny young man had dreamed of being the best in a small house in West Long Branch, New Jersey, and he had made it. When he crawled back into the light after months of retreat from the studio and got on the tour bus, he and his band had recorded the greatest rock 'n' roll record of all time "
«Dylan, c'est fini, mon vieux! L'avenir c'est ça , annonça-t-il [Matt] en foillant dans la boîte à gants pour en extirper une cassette avec une superbe pochette en noir et blanc »
“Dylan, it's over, my old friend. The future is that! He said as he rummaged around in a glove box to pull out a box with a beautiful black and white pocket square "
Trivia
- All songs were composed on the piano in the first house where Springsteen lived alone.
- The riff of the song Born to Run comes from Steve Van Zandt. He also had the idea for the brass section on Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out .
- VH1 voted Born to Run # 27 of the best albums of all time, Rolling Stone voted it # 18 of the 500 best albums of all time.
- In 2003, the album Born to Run was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
- In the first pressings of the record, the name of co-producer Jon Landau was misspelled on the back cover (John). Landau said: "If something had to go wrong with the project, it was manageable."
Album cover
The cover of Born To Run is one of the most famous ever. It was designed by Eric Meola, who shot a total of 900 pictures in a three-hour session. These pictures were later published under the title Born To Run: The Unseen Photos. It shows Bruce Springsteen with an electric guitar (a Fender Telecaster with the neck of a Fender Esquire) leaning against Clarence Clemons. Springsteen's pose was supposedly spontaneous.
The fact that Springsteen and Clemons featured on the cover together should imply that this record was about friendship. The cover was often satirized. For example, there is a cover by Cheap Trick that takes up this motif; also a picture from Sesame Street , in which Bert leans against the Cookie Monster in a similar pose.
Track list
Original edition
page A
- Thunder Road - 4:49
- Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out - 3:11
- Night - 3:00
- Backstreets - 6:30
Side B
- Born to Run - 4:31
- She's the One - 4:30
- Meeting Across the River - 3:18 pm
- Jungleland - 9:34
All songs were written by Bruce Springsteen.
30th Anniversary Edition
On November 24, 2005 Columbia Records released the 30th Anniversary Edition in a box set. Included are:
- A revised CD from the original album. the case is a replica of the LP edition of that time. So the CD is black and in the style of a record.
- The DVD "Wings For Wheels", a making-of for the album that won a Grammy in 2007. There is also a bonus film of three songs recorded on May 1, 1973 at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles.
- The Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 DVD, a full, two-hour concert film, recorded on November 18th at the Hammersmith Odeon , London. This concert was also released on CD. It was also Bruce Springsteen's first ever concert in England.
The box set hit number 18 on the Billboard 200 on December 3, 2005. It was on the charts for six weeks.
Further publication
In 2010 the album appeared along with the six other albums released by Springsteen up to 1984 in the CD box set The Collection 1973-84 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wings for Wheels: The making of Born to Run (Video)
- ↑ Levy, Joe (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 37
- ^ Grammy Hall Of Fame Award. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 2, 2008 ; accessed on February 5, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Born to Run - 30th Anniversary Edition
- ↑ Springsteen's letter to the Los Angeles Times; June 2, 2004
- ↑ On the album Next Position Please (link leads to the English language Wikipedia)
