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Bruce Springsteen was born on 23 September 1949, in Freehold, New Jersey, he bought a secondhand guitar at 13 and while in high school, he began to play at local bars and nightclubs.
In 1972 Springsteen scored a record deal with Columbia Records and went into the studio with many of the musicians with whom he had already worked; the result was "Greetings From Asbury Park N.J.", his first album which sold poorly, although it received favorable reviews.
Just ten months later, in September of 1973, he released a second album titled "The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle" receiving little commercial success.
The Hartland Folk-rocker spent the following year retooling his backup band, which he dubbed The E Street Band; the group comprised second guitarist Steve Van Zandt better known as Little Steven, bassist Garry Tallent, organist Danny Federici, pianist Roy Bittan, saxophonist Clarence Clemons and drummer Max Weinberg.
Springsteen's big break came when he released "Born To Run" in August of 1975, the title-track climbed its way into the Top 40, propelling the album into the top 3 of the National U.S. Pop chart and quickly earned a strong following on the other side of the Atlantic; a second single cut, "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out", reached the #83 spot in the U.S. Pop chart.
In the years following this success, he was in court continuously because of a legal conflict with former manager Mike Appel; by the time the singer+guitarist had resolved the management issues and in mid-1978 returned with his fourth effort, "Darkness On The Edge Of Town", it peaked at #5 on The U.S. Pop Albums chart and spawned two top 40 hits: "Prove It All Night" and "Badlands".
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With a career spanning nearly 40 years, Bruce's Discography is simply a treasure. The list below is all of his and The E Street Bands major releases as well as key greatest hits, live and unique offerings. I am certain that some individual songs have been missed, but we tried to be a complete as possible for the man that is a New Jersey legend.
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