Springsteen alludes to a busy sex life, but mentions few names or details. He also delves into his songwriting process, especially for his greatest song, and perhaps the greatest rock song ever, the one that gives the book its title.īorn to Run takes on other meanings in the book, too. Springsteen recounts how he first met the E Street Band members and other people who would have major impacts on his career, like record executive John Hammond and managers Mike Appel and Jon Landau. Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Let’s get started.
Later in life, a strain of mental illness that ran through the Irish side of the family would have devastating effects on Douglas - and on Bruce. "He loved me but he couldn't stand me," the son writes. His father, Douglas, was an angry, drifting misanthrope whom Springsteen seems always to see drinking in the dark, alone at the kitchen table.
His mother, Adele (still dancing at her son's concerts at 90), is gregarious and indomitably optimistic she often supported the family as a legal secretary. I am alienating, alienated and socially homeless. Born into a mostly Irish and Italian family, he was spoiled from birth by a fiercely protective grandmother, a process that gave him a precocious self-confidence but also "turned me into an unintentional rebel, an outcast weirdo misfit sissy boy. The richest and most heartfelt portions of the book deal with a major theme that has always run through Springsteen's songwriting: his upbringing in the blue-collar, mostly Catholic, largely immigrant town of Freehold, N.J., and the family dynamics that shaped him indelibly. And they reveal that the music that has rocked and raised up countless fans was born at a cost.
The book is an affirmation that, along with his musical brilliance and matchless performance skills, the man is a terrific storyteller and writer. No Springsteen concert has ever disappointed me, but I missed those intros.īorn to Run, Springsteen's new autobiography, reads like a greatest-hits collection of them. Subscribe to app.com for the latest on Bruce Springsteen and the New Jersey music scene.Ĭhris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA Today Network New Jersey.As his list of hits grew and his concerts morphed into the four-hour marathons he now (at age 67) performs, those wonderful stories fell by the wayside. More: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rock Philadelphia after illness hiatus Bruce Springsteen setlist at MSG 1 and 3 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. The band then heads to Europe to play stadiums before returning to North America for stadium and arena shows, which includes Aug.
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