TY - BOOK AU - Springsteen,Bruce TI - Born to run SN - 9781501141515 AV - ML420.S77 A3 2016 U1 - 782.42166092B 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Springsteen, Bruce KW - Rock musicians KW - United States KW - Biography N2 - Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized ER -