I was 18 when Bruce Springsteen’s third album, “Born to Run,” was released 50 years ago, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. I’d just finished my freshman year in college, and I was lost. My ...

Bruce Springsteen performs in Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1975, during the 'Born to Run' tour. Tom Hill/WireImage via Getty Images I was 18 when Bruce Springsteen’s third album, “Born to Run,” was released 50 ...

Bruce Springsteen's groundbreaking album, Born to Run, came out 50 years ago this month, marking a turning point for rock and roll — and for Springsteen. Before he recorded that album, Springsteen's ...

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 ...

The infamous sax solo Clarence Clemons plays on Bruce Springsteen’s rock classic “Born To Run” is so vibrant and exhilarating that it seems like a moment of pure inspiration on Clemons’ part. In truth ...

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, ...

You know the songs from Bruce Springsteen's 'Born To Run' by heart. But how well do you know the stories behind them?

Here’s a rock and roll story that’s never been told. It’s a New York City summer day in 1975 and Bruce Springsteen is trying on an old leather motorcycle jacket his manager Mike Appel wore as a teen ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Louis P. Masur, Rutgers University (THE CONVERSATION) I was 18 when Bruce ...