Born to Run

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Today The Boss aka Bruce Springsteen is a young 67. Many moons ago he was 26 the year was 1975 and he had no hits yet. Could that be possible? We sometimes forget that the greatest rockers once struggled to be known just as much as we continue to struggle to have our voices heard through our writing and poetry. If we get lucky we become published writers and well, as for Springsteen now there is no doubt as to the great music he has come out with. A couple of years before in 1973 Springsteen had been tapped by Columbia Records and was being introduced as the Next Big Thing. At first when no one picked up on him he was first introduced as the “New Dylan” and then as America’s new “Street Poet”. Finally his big break came in 1975 when his first Top 40 hit was released “Born to Run”. Bruce Springsteen came into this world in 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey. His debut album was titled Greetings from Ashbury Park which came out in 1973 and still didn’t rocket him to stardom. It would take his third album to make a breakthrough along with his now American classic “Born to Run”. Two weeks later he had cover articles in Time and Newsweek magazines and as they say the rest is rock and roll history. Are you a Bruce Springsteen fan? http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bruce-springsteen-scores-his-first-pop-hit-with-born-to-run