A timeless classic that assures New Jersey’s rocker a place in the history of music
It was August 25, 1975 when Born to Run He arrived in the shops. Covering from Springsteen with the manager Mike Appel and the producer Jon Landau, Born to Run, engraved in New York, represented the last bet of Rocker after the first two albums, although appreciated by critics, had been a half flop.
Often, when reconstructing the genesis of Born to run, Springsteen’s will to recreate the legendary “Wall of Sound” in his songs is underlinedthe factory brand of the New York producer Phil Spector (Beatles, Ike & Tina Turner, Ronettes, John Lennon, Ramones, George Harrison).
The “wall of sound” was a recording technique that consisted of creating a sound rich, dense and stratifiedwhich filled the entire sound spectrum. Spector was very skilled in obtaining this effect by recording multiple tools that played in unison The same musical part (guitars, piano, sections of wind and strings), overlapping them on several tracks.
Having made this premise, the final results was An exceptional album, eight timeless songs (The title track, Thunder Road, Backstreets, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out, just to name a few) that redefine the sound made in the USA of those years, forty minutes of inspired and unforgettable music. The end of the American dream in the background and the pothos of the interpretation are the two architraves on which the disc stands. Springsteen photographs the frustration of ordinary people in the context of an economy in difficulty and an increasingly faint hope, reflecting the growing gap between the ideal of the American dream and the reality of the life of the working class.
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Born to Run La Sony published Lonely Night in the Parkat the time taken into consideration to be included in the album, but then excluded from the final tracklist.
