But Born To Run, the songwriter’s third, was his make or break album his first two albums hadn’t sold enough to convince Columbia that he wasn’t a flop, so this could’ve been his last chance. The skinny, tousled 24-year-old Jersey Shore songwriter had been hailed as the new Bob Dylan by his A&R man at Columbia Records, John Hammond, who knew what he was talking about, since he had discovered the original. Everything is filled with that tension of somebody struggling, trying to find some other place.’ The whole record feels like it could all be taking place in the course of one evening, in all these different locations. Looking back on the making of Born To Run, its maker Bruce Springsteen had this to say about it: ‘Born To Run had the feeling of that one, endless summer night.
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