But the book has been a little bit different, you know? I mean, you get feedback from the press, and the fans are just starting to get a chance to read it.
Then, I go perform, and I play it, and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. But it's a little different, you know? It's - I'm used to writing something it becomes a record it comes out. SPRINGSTEEN: (Laughter) That's actually - not having to perform it on stage is a good one. So what's it like for you to write something that doesn't have to rhyme and that you don't have to perform on stage? One of the questions I'm asked over and over again by fans on the street is, how do you do it? In the following pages, I'll try to shed a little light on how and, more importantly, why. I've taken as my parameters the events in my life I believe shaped that story and my performance work. This book is both a continuation of that story and a search into its origins. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell. By 20, no race-car-driving rebel, I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. (Reading) I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. It's really a fantastic book, and I'd like our listeners to just hear a little bit of your writing.
I'd love it if you would start by reading the very opening from the foreword of your book. GROSS: Bruce Springsteen, welcome to FRESH AIR, and thank you for welcoming us into your studio. Well, the flag of piracy flew from my mast. Well, I strode all alone into a fallout zone and came out with my soul untouched. I was open to pain and crossed by the rain. I combed my hair till it was just right and commanded the night brigade. It includes this demo version of his song "Growin' Up."īRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: (Singing) Well, I stood stone-like at midnight, suspended in my masquerade. We started with a track from his album "Chapter And Verse" that serves as an audio companion to his memoir with a selection of songs that span his career. But in much of the book, Springsteen reflects on how he and his music were shaped by home, roots, blood, community, freedom and responsibility. The book shares the title of his most famous song, "Born To Run." The theme of that anthem is escape. It was back in 2016 when his memoir had just been published.
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