He Was Born to Run
Born to Run, Springsteen’s third album, was his make or break album. He was given an enormous budget in the record company’s last-ditch effort to make a commercially practical record. And so the pressure was on. The album took over 14 months to record, with six of those months spent on the song “Born to Run” alone.
Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt. Photo By Andre Csillag/Shutterstock
Springsteen became fixated on trying to gain a Phil Spector-type “Wall of Sound” production. He was overcome with anger and frustration over the making of this album, saying later how he heard “sounds in [his] head” that he just couldn’t explain to the others in the studio. The album was finally completed on July 25th, 1975. But Springsteen was not satisfied.