5 STORIES
1975 · 70S
ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY, USA
In the summer of 1975, a 25-year-old from Freehold, New Jersey gambled his entire career on a single song — a Wall of Sound epic about two k…
1975 · 70S
A screen door creaks, a harmonica wheezes, and a piano figure climbs the morning air like a prayer that has not yet decided whether to be a …
1980 · 80S
A quiet, devastating ballad about a teenage marriage forced by pregnancy, an economy that takes more than it gives, and the way memory turns…
1984 · 80S
UNITED STATES, USA
: Bruce Springsteen's 1984 anthem is one of the most misread songs in American popular music — a bleak portrait of a Vietnam veteran abandon…
1984 · 80S
A reluctantly written pop song that became the biggest hit of Bruce Springsteen's career, "Dancing in the Dark" is a study in how exhaustion…