Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision

Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision by Masur, Louis P.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781596916920.

A rich history of Springsteen€™s greatest album, celebrating its themes of youth, escape, and possibility, just in time for the Boss€™s sixtieth birthday. To millions of listeners, Bruce Springsteen€™s Born to Run is much more than a rock-and-roll album€”it€™s a poetic explosion of freedom and frustration. It confirmed Springsteen€™s status as a quintessential American performer: the rocker who, more than any other, gives voice to our hopes, fears, and aspirations. Runaway Dream chronicles the making of the album that launched Springsteen and his E Street Band into the firmament of American art, deftly sketching the ambition, history, and personalities that combined to create the enduring Born to Run. Springsteen wanted Born to Run to be the greatest rock record ever made. For a musician with just two modest-selling LPs to his credit, it was an extraordinary ambition, and session by session, track by tra