This article contains the famous quote, “I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” Soon afterwards Landau stopped writing for Rolling Stone and became Springsteen's manager, a position he holds to this day. His label had spent a ton of money promoting him as the next Dylan but saw little in the way of commercial success. At the time, Bruce Springsteen had released two records and had gained some critical success and a moderate following, mostly through college rock stations. Jon Landau was a music critic who also wrote for Rolling Stone. ' This article appeared as a concert review in The Real Paper on May 22, 1974. NOTE: The following is a blogspot reprint of Jon Landau's Rolling Stone review of Born to Run: So Young and In Love (released on Tracks).Linda Let Me Be the One (released on Tracks).While making the Born to Run album, one of Bruce's ideas was for the album to begin and end with different versions of ' Thunder Road' an acoustic version to open the album, and a full band version to close the album. Due to the success of the record, Bruce was featured on the covers of TIME and NEWSWEEK during the same week of October 27, 1975. Bruce spent over a year recording it, because he anticipated that Columbia Records would drop the E Street Band if Born to Run was not successful. It was also Bruce's first commercial success. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffleīorn to Run is Bruce Springsteen's third studio album.

914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, NY April 18 - July 20, 1975īruce Springsteen, Mike Appel, Jon Landau

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