Springsteen talks about recording his 1975 landmark album and a deluxe new reissue.
In early 1974, Bruce Springsteen was listening to Duane Eddy's 1960 hit "Because They're Young" when a similarly twangy, dramatic guitar riff came into his head. It soon became the intro for the "exhilarating, orgasmic" new song the struggling twenty-four-year-old singer-songwriter was trying to create: He called it "Born to Run." "I had these enormous ambitions for it," says Springsteen, now fifty-six. "I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard. I wanted it to sound enormous, to grab you by your throat and insist that you take that ride, insist that you pay attention --not just to the music, but to life, to being alive."
"Born to Run" ended up as the title track of Springsteen's third album, released on August 25th, 1975. In celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, a newly remastered CD hits stores on November 15th, in a box set that also includes a concert DVD and a new ninety-minute documentary.
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