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Writing an autobiography is a very funny thing. But to put it bluntly, it's just another story, one you picked out from the events of your life. I'm not telling you the "whole thing." Because writing an autobiography not only has its own ideas, but also takes into account the feelings of others. But in such an important writing project, the author made a promise: open his heart to readers to read. From beginning to end of the book, I tried to do that.
This is the real idea of the American rock superstar Bruce Springsteen, in his life story "Born to Run", which he spent 7 years writing, wrote about the real idea of this matter. Well, honestly and honestly made people like it.
And the way and attitude in which he wrote his biography is undoubtedly gratifying. In the past seven years, instead of sitting at his desk and seriously reviewing his life, he still lived, worked, toured and recorded as usual... He would carry a notebook with him, and whenever he had time, he would handwrite his life story in the notebook. Perhaps it is precisely because of this casualness and unhurriedness that we benefit a lot from reading this biography of him:
In the book, he shares his family birth, upbringing and married life; how he got to rock and roll, and the stumbles along the way, the splits with the band, the idea of singles and album creation... Between the lines, there is the honesty, humor, creativity and thinking that are consistent in his songs.
Illustrations of the inner pages of the book
The autobiographical title, "Born to Run," has a needless understanding for fans who love Bruce Springsteen. One is that the popularity of the self-titled song from the self-titled album born in 1975 has made Springsteen a well-known rock star; the other is that the album carries his "subtle reflection of the times and the creation of his own identity".
In 1975, when the album "Born to Run" was born, American society was in a state of turmoil and fragmentation. The "Beat Generation" of the 1950s, the "Hippie Movement" of the 60s, the rich and idle urban youth were busy with anti-culture, anti-tradition, pursuit of freedom, and questioning the meaning of life... At that time, literature and art were all focused on this part of the population, but they forgot that there was another large group of working people trapped in the bottom of life.
Haruki Murakami once wrote bluntly in his collection of musical essays, "No Meaning, No Swing," that "Springsteen almost single-handedly realized the Renaissance of American rock and roll." In his opinion, it is this album "Born to Run" that allows Springsteen to really play the leadership talent of the lyric writer, because the album has the most real and vivid story, he describes the mentality of working-class young people so frankly and realistically, and directly conveys it through music.
Screenshot of QQ music
Bruce Springsteen, who was born on September 23, 1949 in an ordinary working-class family in New Jersey, USA, will graduate from high school, work in the factory where his parents lived, and then get married and have children... This was the typical small-town life pattern at that time, much the same, but also boring.
Fortunately, on an ordinary Sunday in 1956, "Elvis Presley" made his debut a "unreal world" for Springsteen, which opened his rock and roll path, and he has been trying and thinking about his own musical direction.
His first two albums were unremarkable, and it wasn't until the creative process of the third album, "Born to Run", that he gradually found his own direction - composing for the working class, speaking up, writing about their lives, their hardships, their emotions, their stories...
In his autobiography, Springsteen wrote, "Growing up in a working-class environment in my hometown had a fundamental and permanent impact on my identity. ...... I want my music to be music that is identity, music that explores meaning and the future." Obviously, he said it and did it!
Especially later, 1984, it was the year of Bruce Springsteen, because of the record sales of the album "Born in America", which brought an atomic bomb-like effect and helped him ascend to the throne of rock stardom.
But in this book, Springsteen does not forget to keep a sober mind while enjoying this sudden glory. He was well aware that it was a "resonance and power of the integration of politics and the individual." In the United States at that time, 1984 was the Olympic year of Los Angeles, and it was also the election year of President Ronald Reagan...
The ups and downs of this road, Springsteen is all written in the biography "Born to Run". It is worth mentioning that his text is very impressive to read, crisp and clean but not lacking in humor and humor, as if he is sitting next to you to tell the feeling.
Reading his biography made me see a very different rock star: Bruce Springsteen, who liked to be alone, liked to think, and liked to record stories with him. He does not take drugs, does not drink alcohol, does not smoke, and does not live a debauched life, but he has his own small entanglements and big thoughts, and he is more frank and frank about his later depression...
He said, "People like us who have nothing, baby, we were born to run..."
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