BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born To Run MINT Audio "Jon Landau Misprint"

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A BREAKDOWN OF THE ARTIST/S :-

Born 23 September 1949, Freehold, New Jersey, USA. As the world's greatest living rock 'n' roll star, Bruce Springsteen has unconsciously proved former Rolling Stone critic Jon Landau totally correct. Landau appeared smug and brave when he made the arrogant statement in 1974, "I saw rock 'n' roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen". Prior to that, Springsteen had paid his dues, playing in local bands around New Jersey, notably with the Castiles, Earth, Steel Mill and Dr Zoom And The Sonic Boom, before he settled as the Bruce Springsteen Band with David Sancious (keyboards), Gary Tallent (Born 27 October 1949, USA; bass), Clarence Clemons (Born 11 January 1942, Norfolk, Virginia, USA; saxophone/vocals), Danny Federici (Born 23 January 1950, USA; keyboards) and Vini Lopez (drums), with Steven Van Zandt (Born 22 November 1950, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; guitar) an occasional member. Following an introduction to CBS Records A&R legend John Hammond, Springsteen was signed as a solo artist; the company sensed a future Bob Dylan. Springsteen ignored their plans and set about recording his debut with the band, Greetings From Asbury Park N.J.. This 1973 release sold poorly, although critics in the USA and UK saw its potential. The follow-up only 10 months later was a much stronger collection, The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle. Future classics were on this similarly low-selling album, including "Rosalita" and "Incident On 57th Street". It also featured the beautiful "Asbury Park Fourth Of July (Sandy)", later recorded by the Hollies.

Springsteen's musicians were re-named the E Street Band after his second album's release. Line-up changes saw the introduction of Max Weinberg (Born 13 April 1951, USA; drums) and Roy Bittan (Born 2 July 1949, USA; keyboards) to replace Lopez and Sancious, while Van Zandt was made a permanent member. During the following May, Landau saw the band and made his now famous statement. He eventually became Springsteen's record producer and manager. During this time, the first two albums began to sell steadily, following a heavy schedule of concerts, as word got out to the public that here was something special. Springsteen wrote directly to his fans in a language which they understood. Here was a working class American, writing passionately about his job, his car/bike, his girlfriend and his home-town. Born To Run was released in 1975 and immediately put Springsteen into rock's first division. This superb album contained a wealth of lyrical frustration, anger and hope, themes brilliantly encapsulated on the striking opening track "Thunder Road". The playing was faultless and the quality of the songs was among his best. Critics and fans loved it, and the album was a significant hit on both sides of the Atlantic, while the driving title track provided the singer with his first US Top 30 hit.

During the accompanying tour Springsteen collected rave reviews and appeared as cover feature in both Newsweek and Time. Throughout his European tour the UK press was similar in their praise and exhaustive coverage, which led to a backlash of Bruce Springsteen jokes. Springsteen's recording career was then held up for three years as he and Landau entered into litigation with Mike Appel, with whom Springsteen had struck a management deal in 1972. Other artists kept the torch burning brightly, with Manfred Mann's Earth Band releasing a sparkling version of his song "Blinded By The Light" and Patti Smith recording a definitive version of his "Because The Night". Other artists like ex-Hollies singer Allan Clarke, Robert Gordon, and the Pointer Sisters recorded his material. With the lawsuits successfully completed the anti-climactic Darkness On The Edge Of Town arrived in 1978. The album reflected the legal problems which beset Springsteen in the mid-70s and in contrast to Born To Run was a moody, claustrophobic album, yet over 25 years later it still stands as a great work. The show-stopping "Badlands" and "The Promised Land" were two of the album's masterpieces.

From the moment Darkness On The Edge Of Town was released in June, Springsteen and the band embarked on a gruelling tour which took them into 1979. On his 30th birthday he played at the historic MUSE concert; the subsequent No Nukes album and video captured a vintage Springsteen performance of high-energy and humour. After feigning collapse onstage, he cheekily got the audience to beg for an encore having previously pointed out to them that he could not carry on like this as he is 30 years old! The audience loved the banter and together with the great Clarence Clemons, he roared into an encore of "Rosalita". The next months were spent recording the double-set The River, which received almost as much praise as Born To Run and provided the artist with his first US chart-topper. All shades of Springsteen were on offer; the album was brooding, depressing, pensive, uplifting, exciting and celebratory. In 20 songs, Springsteen covered every aspect of both his and the listener's life. It was hard to pick out any single standout tracks, but the US Top 5 hit "Hungry Heart", "Fade Away", "Independence Day" and the brooding title track have remained perennial favourites. The following year Springsteen toured Europe again, and helped to resurrect Gary "U.S." Bonds' career by producing and writing some of his comeback album Dedication. "This Little Girl" is one of Springsteen's finest songs and Bonds found himself back in the charts after almost 20 years absence.

Springsteen's next move was to release Nebraska, a stark acoustic set which was recorded solo directly onto a cassette recorder. It is raw Springsteen, uncompromising and sometimes painful; Bruce without his clothes on. At one point on the album he imitates a wolf cry, but to many it was a genuine howl, that struck terror when turned up loudly. After a further lengthy wait for a new album, Born In The USA arrived in 1984. As is often the case, the album that is the most commercially accessible, bestselling and longest resident in the charts, is not always the artist's best work. The transatlantic chart-topper Born In The USA was a prime example. Selling over 15 million copies, it stayed in the UK charts for two-and-a-half years, in the country of origin it stayed even longer. Numerous hit singles were released including the title track, "Dancing In The Dark" (Springsteen's most pop-orientated release), "Cover Me", "I'm On Fire", "Glory Days", "I'm Goin' Down", and "My Hometown". During one bout of Springsteen-mania on his 1985 European tour, all seven albums to date were in the UK charts. That year also saw him marry actress Julianne Phillips, and support political and social issues. He participated in the USA For Africa's "We Are The World" and joined former E. Street Band member Steven Van Zandt aka Little Steven (who had been replaced by Nils Lofgren the previous year) on the Artists United Against Apartheid song "Sun City". In festive style his perennial "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" topped the US charts and made the UK Top 10 in December.

Alongside Bob Dylan, Springsteen is the most bootlegged artist in history. In order to stem the flow he released a five-album box set at the end of 1986. The superbly recorded but overlong Live 1975-1985 entered the US charts at number 1 and generated two Top 10 hits, a cover version of the Motown classic "War" and his own "Fire". The following year Tunnel Of Love was released; the advance orders took the album to number 1 on the day of release in the UK and USA. It was another exceptionally strong work, an intensely personal examination of the fallout from a failed love affair (strongly rumoured to refer to Springsteen and Phillips). "Brilliant Disguise", "One Step Up" and the title track were all major US hits. Springsteen followed the album with another major tour. After months of speculation and paparazzi intrusions, Springsteen's affair with his back-up singer Patti Scialfa (Born Vivienne Patricia Scialfa, 29 July 1953, New Jersey, USA) was confirmed, with his wife filing for divorce (granted in 1989). He married Scialfa in 1991 and the couple subsequently settled down and raised three children.

Springsteen continued to show his political stripes by supporting the Human Rights Now tour for Amnesty International in 1988. During the late 80s he performed numerous low-key gigs in bars and clubs and occasional worthy causes as well as his own Tunnel Of Love tour. Springsteen's successful European tour was clouded by the continuing obsession with his personal relationships. In 1989, he recorded "Viva Las Vegas" as part of a benefit album, and reached the age of 40. In the same year, the E. Street Band disintegrated following the singer's suggestion.

During the early 90s the press followed Springsteen's every move, anxiously awaiting signs of action as he continued to enjoy life, occasionally appearing with other famous musicians. It is a testament to Springsteen's standing that he maintained his position, having released only eight albums of new material in almost 20 years. In 1992, he issued two albums simultaneously: Human Touch (a UK chart-topper) and Lucky Town. Both scaled the charts in predictable fashion as fans and critics welcomed him back, although not with quite the fervour of the past. The only notable hit to be drawn from the albums was the brooding double a-side "Human Touch"/"Better Days". Springsteen enjoyed more success with "Streets Of Philadelphia", the emotionally charged title track for the 1994 movie Philadelphia; the song later won an Academy Award and four Grammy Awards. It also returned the singer to the US Top 10 and provided him with his biggest UK hit, reaching number 2 in the spring of 1994.

In 1995, it was reported that Springsteen was working with the E Street Band again. The same year's Greatest Hits provided him with his fifth US chart-topper and fourth UK number 1 album, and included two new tracks and two previously unreleased oldies. As a complete about turn, 1995's The Ghost Of Tom Joad was a solo acoustic album. The album was warm and mellow, in direct contrast to the stark and hollow power of its nearest relative in the singer's catalogue, Nebraska. Sounding a lot like Woody Guthrie, Springsteen had become ol' grandpappy, telling stories of Vietnam, prison life and lost love. He no longer sounded angry or energetic; merely philosophical. It was one of his strongest albums in years, yet one of his least commercially successful.

In 1998, Springsteen successfully fought a lawsuit to stop a UK company issuing some early material. This media item coincided with the release of a surprisingly good box set, containing 66 unreleased tracks. Normally, the original reluctance to release such material is well-founded on the basis of, if it was not good enough then, why bother now. This set bucked the trend and was highly praised. It has already become one of the most important releases of his career. The following year Springsteen embarked on a rapturously well-received world tour with the rejuvenated E Street Band. In June 2000, he unveiled a new song, "American Skin", at a performance at Madison Square Garden. A scathing comment on the police shooting of the unarmed Bronx resident Amadou Diallo, the song prompted calls by the NYPD for a boycott of the singer's concerts and was later included on the tour souvenir, Live In New York City. Springsteen and the E Street Band then reunited to record their first new studio set since 1984. The Rising, released in July 2002, was inspired by the terrorist attacks of 11 September the previous year, with many of the songs written from the perspective of working people whose lives were irrevocably changed by the day's events. It was a formidable album with powerful, anthemic arrangements. Springsteen's resurgence was rewarded the following February when he took home three Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Album.

In October 2004, Springsteen embarked on the Vote For Change Tour, joining acts such as R.E.M., Pearl Jam and the Dixie Chicks in a series of shows intended to influence voters to remove President George W. Bush from the White House. He also joined Democratic candidate John Kerry at a number of rallies.

Discography:
Greetings From Asbury Park N.J. (Columbia 1973)***, The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (Columbia 1973)****, Born To Run (Columbia 1975)*****, Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Columbia 1978)****, The River (Columbia 1980)****, Nebraska (Columbia 1982)****, Born In The USA (Columbia 1984)***, Tunnel Of Love (Columbia 1987)****, Human Touch (Columbia 1992)***, Lucky Town (Columbia 1992)***, In Concert - MTV Plugged (Columbia 1993)***, The Ghost Of Tom Joad (Columbia 1995)****, with The E Street Band Live In New York City (Columbia 2001)***, The Rising (Columbia 2002)****. Devils & Dust (Columbia 2005)****, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (Columbia 2006)****, Magic (Columbia 2007)****, Working On A Dream (Columbia 2009)****, Wrecking Ball (Columbia 2012)****.

THE HISTORY OF THE RECORD :- Springsteen began work on the album after touring in support of its previous album, The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, released in 1973. Given an enormous budget in a last-ditch effort at a commercially viable record, Springsteen became bogged down in the recording process while striving for a wall of sound production. But, fed by the release of an early mix of "Born to Run" to progressive rock radio, anticipation built toward the album's release.

Springsteen has noted a progression in his songwriting compared to his previous work. Unlike Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, Born to Run includes few specific references to places in New Jersey, in an attempt to make the songs more identifiable to a wider audience. Springsteen has also referred to a maturation in his lyrics, calling Born to Run "the album where I left behind my adolescent definitions of love and freedom-- it was the dividing line." In addition, Springsteen spent more time in the studio refining songs than he had on the previous two albums. All in all, the album took more than 14 months to record, with six months alone spent on the song "Born to Run" itself. During this time Springsteen battled with anger and frustration over the album, saying he heard "sounds in [his] head" that he could not explain to the others in the studio. During the process, Springsteen brought in Jon Landau to help with production. This was the beginning of the breakup of Springsteen's relationship with producer and manager Mike Appel, after which Landau assumed both roles. The album was Springsteen's first to feature pianist Roy Bittan and drummer Max Weinberg (although David Sancious and Ernest "Boom" Carter played the piano and drums, respectively, on the title track). Bittan also played the organ in place of Danny Federici on every track except the title track, on which Federici appeared.

The album is noted for its use of introductions to set the tone of each song (all of the record was composed on piano, not guitar), and for the Phil Spector-like "Wall of Sound" arrangements and production. Indeed, Springsteen has said that he wanted "Born to Run" to sound like "Roy Orbison singing Bob Dylan, produced by Spector." Most of the tracks were first recorded with a core rhythm section band comprising Springsteen, Weinberg, Bittan, and bassist Garry Tallent, with other members' contributions then added on.

In terms of the original LP's sequencing, Springsteen eventually adopted a "four corners" approach, as the songs beginning each side ("Thunder Road", "Born to Run") were uplifting odes to escape, while the songs ending each side ("Backstreets", "Jungleland") were sad epics of loss, betrayal, and defeat. (Originally, he had planned to begin and end the album with alternative versions of "Thunder Road".)

Also, original pressings have "Meeting Across the River" billed as "The Heist". The original album cover has the title printed in a graffiti style font. These copies, known as the "script cover," are very rare and considered to be the "holy grail" for Springsteen collectors.

THE COVER :- Textured glossy gatefold sleeve

THE LABEL :- CBS labels

THE VINYL VISUALLY :- On initial inspection of this piece of vinyl I cannot see any areas of immediate concern. The vinyl sits perfectly flat on the turntable so there are no nasty warps to worry about. The vinyl still retains its just pressed quality, full of deep shine and lustre. I have not noted anything that would affect play. A lovely piece of vinyl. Near Mint visually.

THE VINYL PLAY GRADED :- The playgrading of the vinyl reveals no lessening in the sound quality. It lives up to its visual grading. There is next to no surface noise. The sound quality is high with a full dynamic range and very detailed sound. I feel certain this album has never been played before my grading play and stored well over the years. I would grade the audio playback as Near Mint condition.

THE SLEEVE FRONT CONDITION :- This is the very earliest 1st press textured glossy sleeve. The front of the sleeve is free from writing, free from stickers or evidence of previously removed stickers. The sleeve reveals no ringwear and no creases. There is no corner and seam wear. The colours are bright and crisp and the white incredibly white for an album over 30 years old. There are just a couple of very tiny marks. I would grade the front of the cover as Near Mint condition and probably the best you could find in the market.

THE SLEEVE REAR CONDITION :- The rear of the sleeve is free from writing, free from stickers or evidence of previously removed stickers. There are no creases on the rear of the sleeve and no ringwear. No corner and seam wear. Again the rear still retains its original crisp colours. I would grade the rear as on a par with the front and Near Mint condition.

THE SLEEVE INNER GATEFOLD CONDITION :-The inner of the sleeve is in very nice shape with only one or two light yellowing marks and general wear and tare. Excellent condition.

THE LABEL SIDE ONE CONDITION :- Original CBS label in excellent order free from stickers or writing and no damage at all. No signs of play around the spindle hole. Near Mint condition.

THE LABEL SIDE TWO CONDITION :- Original CBS label in excellent order free from stickers or writing and no damage at all. No signs of play around the spindle hole. Near Mint condition.

THE SPINE CONDITION :- The writing on the spine is crystal clear, no spine splits at all. Near Mint condition

THE INNER SLEEVE CONDITION :- Generic white inner in Excellent condition

THE EXTRAS :- No extras were given with this album

THE CATALOGUE NUMBER :- S 69170

THE YEAR OF RELEASE :-  1975

THE LABEL :- CBS

THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN :-  UK

PLAYING FORMAT :- STEREO

THE MATRIX NUMBERS :-  CBS 69170 A/6  &  CBS 69170 B4

TRACK LISTING :-

SIDE ONE :-

1. BORN TO RUN
2. SHE'S THE ONE
3. MEETING ACROSS THE RIVER
4. JUNGLELAND

SIDE TWO :-

1. THUNDER ROAD
2. TENTH AVENUE FREEZ-OUT
3. NIGHT
4. BACKSTREETS

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