Bruce Springsteen released his landmark album, Born to Run, 45 years ago today, Tuesday — August 25th, 1975.
It was the pivotal album in his career, coming after two albums that hardly sold, despite great reviews. The feeling was that if his third album wasn’t successful, it might spell the end of Springsteen as a recording artist. He says there was definitely pressure on him.
“Even though my first record had got a lot of attention when it came out, shortly thereafter we kinda slipped back under the radar. This particular record you knew that the spotlight was gonna be on you,
