Racing in the Street

For more than three decades Bruce Springsteen’s ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes fears loves and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen featuring the most insightful revealing famous and infamous articles interviews reviews and other writings. This nostalgic journey through the career of a rock-’n’-roll legend chronicles every album and each stage of Springsteen’s career. It’s all here—Dave Marsh’s Rolling Stone review of Springsteen’s ten sold-out Bottom Line shows in 1975 in New York City Jay Cocks’s and Maureen Orth’s dueling Time and Newsweek cover stories George Will’s gross misinterpretation of Springsteen’s message on his Born in the USA tour and Will Percy’s 1999 interview for Double Take plus much much more.