Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run saved The Boss’s career.
After putting out a pair of delightful albums in 1973, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle; which featured great songs like “Blinded By The Light,” “For You,” “Spirit In The Night,” and “Growin’ Up” on the debut, and “Rosalita” on the follow-up, mediocre sales worried Columbia Records.
Most bands today are not given three records to prove themselves, but Columbia, now under new management, gave Springsteen and his E Street Band enough money to record one more single. The New Jersey native took it, and spent six months recording the epic title track for Born To Run.
Instantly the new suits were disciples and gave Springsteen a big enough budget to make the album around it. The pressure was so much for the 24-year-old that after 14 months of making the album, he was so disgusted with the results he walked out of his motel room in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and threw the finished recordings into the unsuspecting swimming pool.
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