The struggling songwriter who couldn’t get on the radio, and was this close to being dropped, was no more. The search for replacements wasn’t without its difficulties, as Springsteen memorably described in his 2016 memoir:įrom here on out, the venues would only get bigger, and, by the end of 1975, Springsteen had made history by being on the cover of Time and Newsweek in the same week. Things got off to a rocky start when keyboardist David Sancious, and drummer Ernest “Boom” Carter, decided to leave the E-Street Band.īoth excellent musicians whose playing was central to “Born to Run”‘s frenzied sound, it was an unwelcome and untimely blow. The career-saving anthem didn’t come quickly – recording sessions dragged on for six months – but when the dust settled, Springsteen would have his first big hit, and, crucially, a label that was now on-board. Good thing, so, that the song he came up with was “Born to Run”. If not, Bruce was on the first Greyhound bus back to New Jersey. Get on the radio, and they’d put up for the new record. But, before he could get to work, there was a hurdle to get over first.Īs a way of testing the waters, Columbia decided that they’d only fund a single, not an album.
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