BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born To Run 1975 UK CBS 1st PRESS *MINT*
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born To Run 1975 UK CBS 1st PRESS *MINT*
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENBorn To Run
UK CBS (69170) FIRST PRESSING (November 1975)
AN OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL COPY
LOOKS UNPLAYED AND SOUNDS LIKE NEW
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE 'SUNSET' CBS LABELS
MATRIX: CBS - S - 69170 - A4 / CBS - S - 69170 - B2
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVE WITH "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" PRINTED IN BLACK
Bruce Springsteen's make-or-break third album represented a sonic leap from his first two, which had been made for modest sums at a suburban studio; Born to Run was cut on a superstar budget, mostly at the Record Plant in New York.
Springsteen's backup band had changed, with his two virtuoso players, keyboardist David Sancious and drummer Vini Lopez, replaced by the professional but less flashy Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg.
The result was a full, highly produced sound that contained elements of Phil Spector's melodramatic work of the 1960s.
Layers of guitar, layers of echo on the vocals, lots of keyboards, thunderous drums -- Born to Run had a big sound, and Springsteen wrote big songs to match it.
The overall theme of the album was similar to that of The E Street Shuffle; Springsteen was describing, and saying farewell to, a romanticised teenage street life.
But where he had been affectionate, even humorous before, he was becoming increasingly bitter.
If Springsteen had celebrated his dead-end kids on his first album and viewed them nostalgically on his second, on his third he seemed to despise their failure, perhaps because he was beginning to fear he was trapped himself. Nevertheless, he now felt removed, composing an updated West Side Story with spectacular music that owed more to Bernstein than to Berry.
To call Born to Run overblown is to miss the point; Springsteen's precise intention is to blow things up, both in the sense of expanding them to gargantuan size and of exploding them.
If The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle was an accidental miracle, Born to Run was an intentional masterpiece
Side 1:
Thunder Road (4:50)
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (3:11)
Night (3:01)
Backstreets (6:29)
Side 2:
Born To Run (4:30)
She's The One (4:30)
Meeting Across The River (3:16)
Jungleland (9:33)
LABELS: MINT
An immaculate set of labels.
No spindle traces or any sign the record has ever been played
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces are unmarked and shine like new
VINYL Audio: MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with nothing to fault
SLEEVE: MINT
As crisp, clean, sharp and fresh as the day it was made
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
DUE TO THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES I WILL ONLY BE POSTING ONCE A WEEK ON FRIDAY
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any 1271 (GS 8.3.4 (1271))
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