I was 18 when Bruce Springsteen’s third album, “Born to Run,” was released 50 years ago, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. I’d just finished my freshman year in college, and I was lost. My ...

Bruce Springsteen performs in Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1975, during the 'Born to Run' tour. Tom Hill/WireImage via Getty Images I was 18 when Bruce Springsteen’s third album, “Born to Run,” was released 50 ...

Bruce Springsteen was always shooting for the stars. In his 2016 memoir, he talks about making plans for world domination with his first boss, early 1970s manager Mike Appel. “We weren’t aiming for a ...

Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere, but it was also the 50th anniversary of Springsteen’s first great album: ...

It is one of the enduring images of rock history: a black and white portrait of a tousle-haired, leather jacket-wearing Bruce Springsteen, his Fender Telecaster slung over his shoulder as he leans ...

As any music critic knows, revealing fresh insight about work so prominent as to have become one with a bygone era’s zeitgeist is challenging in the extreme. Bruce Springsteen’s 1975-released magnum ...

For Bruce Springsteen, this is a fine time for a look back even as he continues a European tour with his E Street band. That’s because Aug. 26 marks the 50th anniversary of The Boss’s breakthrough ...

Happy “Born to Run” day! Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, released on Aug. 25, 1975, is now 50 years old. Fans are celebrating around the world -- and in Washington, D.C. U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., ...

Here’s a rock and roll story that’s never been told. It’s a New York City summer day in 1975 and Bruce Springsteen is trying on an old leather motorcycle jacket his manager Mike Appel wore as a teen ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Louis P. Masur, Rutgers University (THE CONVERSATION) I was 18 when Bruce ...