Read more
Informationen zum Autor Bruce Springsteen has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, theSongwriters Hall of Fame, and the New Jersey Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of20 Grammy Awards, the Academy Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors. Helives in New Jersey with his family. Klappentext “Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer hasmade one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to dothis.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to RunIn 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’shalftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to writeabout it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began.Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself towriting the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, andoriginality found in his songs.He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry,danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment herefers 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 abar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarmingcandor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles thatinspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals morethan 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 forworkers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, oranyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll.Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many ofhis songs (“Thunder Road,” “Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “TheRiver,” “Born in the U.S.A.,” “The Rising,” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” to namejust a few), Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of asingular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about hisexperiences. ...
