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An important piece of music history here, from Smithsonian.
Okay, yes, it's clearly a book ad. But it's an informative book ad.
In the late summer of 1975, Bruce Springsteen’s third studio album, Born to Run, launched to critical acclaim and rapidly climbed the Billboard charts, holding at number three.
Some might argue, well, "How can something that peaked at #3 be considered the greatest of anything?" I say: because quality isn't always recognized as such. Consider Vincent van Gogh, severely underrated in his own time, only later to become one of the world's most recognizable names in art.
So it is with Springsteen. Yes. Yes, I did just compare him to van Gogh.
“I can listen to it now 50 years later and think that every note and word are in exactly the right place,” says Peter Ames Carlin, Springsteen’s biographer and author of the just-released Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run.
Hence the book ad. Does it make me buy the book? No. I was going to buy it anyway.
The album continues to draw audiences with an estimated total of seven million copies sold in the U.S. alone over the past five decades and is listed for its cultural importance in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.
The actual 50th anniversary of the album's release isn't for another few days. I should probably put it on my calendar to remember to listen to the thing on that day. I was pretty young when it came out, and it wasn't on my radar at the time. It wasn't until a few years later that I discovered the awesomeness that is Bruce.
I won't bore you with the rest of the article, which is long. It's linked there for anyone interested; I know not everyone is into it.
Regular readers know I don't indulge in celebrity gossip. But I don't think of Springsteen as a celebrity; I think of him as a guy who makes great music. And music matters.
So you're scared and you're thinking
That maybe we ain't that young anymore...
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