A pivotal scene in the Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson-led The Smashing Machine features the iconic Bruce Springsteen song from Born to Run, “Jungleland.” It is played in the background of a heated argument ...

After the middling sales of Springsteen’s first two albums, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., and The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, executives at Columbia Records weren’t enthusiastic ...

Peter Ames Carlin first heard Bruce Springsteen’s single “Born to Run” in 1975 when the future music biographer was a 12-year-old kid in a car headed home from a hike with his Boy Scout troop. He was, ...

In the waning months of 1973, Bruce Springsteen’s career was in doubt. His first two albums with Columbia Records — “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.” and “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street ...

Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an "existential moment" for Springsteen. Carlin's book is Tonight in Jungleland. Originally broadcast Aug. 7, 2025.

In his new book, Tonight in Jungleland, Peter Ames Carlin says that Bruce Springsteen chose to have Clarence Clemons on the cover of Born to Run with him in part to stand against racism Carlin spoke ...

Before "Born to Run," Bruce Springsteen was in danger of being dropped by his record label. But the landmark album, released 50 years ago this month, changed all that: The New Jersey native vaulted to ...

One thing you could count on during any Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert over the last four decades is that the biggest cheers of the marathon whoosh of hyper-energy rock-and-roll ...