With hits like “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” and “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen’s breakout album Born to Run is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Now, music journalist Peter Ames Carlin has a ...

Before “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen was in danger of being dropped by his record label. But the landmark album, released 50 years ago this month, changed all that: The New Jersey native vaulted to ...

The stakes were never higher for Bruce Springsteen than they were in 1975, the year his classic album "Born to Run" hit record stores and radio waves. Though it was only the rocker's third studio ...

Peter Ames Carlin first heard Bruce Springsteen’s single “Born to Run” in 1975 when the future music biographer was a 12-year-old kid in a car headed home from a hike with his Boy Scout troop. He was, ...

Summer means sunshine, the Jersey Shore, and Springsteen. With 2025 marking the 50th anniversary of “Born to Run,” one of rock’s greatest albums (arguing is futile), Peter Ames Carlin dove into the ...

Bruce Springsteen, shown during the "Born to Run" tour in 1975, tinkered with the album until the very last minute, Peter Ames Carlin writes in "Tonight in Jungleland." (Richard E. Aaron / Redferns ...