This is the tenth (and final, sort of) in a series of blogs in which I go through and “musically annotate” Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography, “Born to Run”. This involves going through the book page by page and listing the artists, and when possible, providing a YouTube video of the artists and songs that Bruce mentions as among his favorites.
Here are the previous posts:
- Chapters 1-8
- Chapters 9-16
- Chapters 17-24
- Chapters 25-32
- Chapters 33-40
- Chapters 41-48
- Chapters 49-56
- Chapters 57-64
- Chapters 65-72
Here is the YouTube playlist of all songs/artists mentioned in Chapters 73-79; you can access any particular song by clicking in the top left corner of the screen and choosing the desired video. I also have a listing of the songs, which can be found after the video. In those cases where Bruce just mentions a musical group, I randomly chose one of that group’s songs to include in the playlist.
- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Land of Hope and Dreams (Live at Sandy Relief 12-12-12)
- Lady Gaga – The Edge Of Glory
- Amazing Grace Saxophone
- The Promised Land – Springsteen – MetLife#1 Aug 23, 2016
- Bruce Springsteen – Badlands – No Surrender – Milwaukee, WI – March 3, 2016 LIVE
- Sexmachine James Brown 1971
- Sam & Dave – Soul Man (1967)
- James Brown – Please Please Please (Live @ The Apollo Theatre 1985)
- Smokey Robinson & The miracles live – You really got a hold on me
- Joe Tex – Hold On To What You’ve Got
- Joe Strummer – London Calling (Later with Jools Holland May ’00)
- Neil Young – Heart Of Gold
- Bob Dylan – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Unplugged)
- Rolling Stones Newark Dec 15 2012 Tumbling Dice with Bruce Springsteen
- Joey Ramone – New York City
- The Beatles – Don’t Let Me Down
- “Memphis Soul Stew” (live) King Curtis & The Kingpins
- JUNIOR WALKER and the ALLSTARS – “WHAT DOES IT TAKE” (to win your love) 1969
- Walking With Mr Lee by Lee Allen & His Band 1958
- Bruce Springsteen – We Take Care Of Our Own – Philadelphia 3/28/12 (night 1)
- Terry’s Song – Bruce Springsteen – Perth Arena 8-2-14
- Bruce Springsteen “Angel Eyes” 1995
- The Doors – Riders On The Storm (ORIGINAL!) – driving with Jim
- Paul McCartney & Bruce Springsteen – I Saw Her Standing There & Twist And Shout
- Roy Orbison – Oh, Pretty Woman (from Black & White Night)
- The Rolling Stones – Not Fade Away (TV 1964)
- Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes
- Bruce Springsteen – Just Like Fire Would ( The Saints) BEC – 14-03-2013
- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – American Skin (41 Shots)
- Bruce Springsteen w.Tom Morello – Ghost of Tom Joad – Madison Square Garden, NYC – 2009/10/29&30
- “Highway to Hell” (Adelaide, 02/11/14)
- Bruce Springsteen- The Easybeats’ “Friday On My Mind” – (Sydney, 02/19/14)
- Bruce Springsteen – “Stayin’ Alive” (Brisbane, 02/26/14)
- Bruce Springsteen – My Fathers House (acoustic)
- Bruce Springsteen 2013-06-20 Coventry – Long Time Comin’
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