Born to Run
Die Autobiografie - (Deutsche Ausgabe) - Der Nr.-1-Bestseller
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Publisher Description
In seiner gefeierten Autobiografie legt Bruce Springsteen sein Leben offen – mit derselben Ehrlichkeit, Lebensfreude und Eigenwilligkeit, die auch seine Songs auszeichnen.
Bruce Springsteen erzählt von seiner katholisch geprägten Kindheit in Freehold, New Jersey, seiner Besessenheit, Musiker werden zu wollen, und seinem Aufstieg zum Weltstar. Entwaffnend ehrlich spricht er über die Hintergründe vieler persönlicher Rückschläge, die die Inspiration für einige seiner besten Songs waren. Selten zuvor hat ein Bühnenkünstler seine eigene Geschichte mit solch einer Kraft und solch einem lodernden Feuer niedergeschrieben!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his long-awaited memoir, Springsteen takes readers on an entertaining, high-octane journey from the streets of New Jersey to all over the world. A natural storyteller, Springsteen commands our attention, regaling us with his tales of growing up poor with a misanthropic father and a mother who had endless faith in people. The Boss delights us with humorous stories of his first guitar which he couldn't get his seven-year-old fingers around and his inspiration to become a musician after seeing Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show: "I WANTED... I NEEDED... TO ROCK! NOW!" Once he's hooked, he can't give up this insatiable hunger to rock like Chuck Berry, or the Rolling Stones, or the Beatles; soon he's playing in his first band, the Castiles, and eventually with another band, Steel Mill, opening up for Grand Funk Railroad, Ike & Tina Turner, and Iron Butterfly. Springsteen weaves a captivating story, introducing us to the essential people in his life: Patti Scialfa, Clarence Clemons, Steven Van Zandt, and producer/managers Mike Appel and Jon Landau, among many others. He offers absorbing accounts of the making of each album, and he considers Born to Run as the dividing line between musical styles, as well as the mark of the beginning of his success; he also admits that his bands were never democracies and that he makes the decisions. Most insightful, he reveals his ongoing battles with depression "shortly after my sixtieth I slipped into a depression like I hadn't experienced" and his eventual ability to live with this condition. Springsteen writes with the same powerful lyrical quality of his music.
