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 ...

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 ...

Peter Ames Carlin first heard Bruce Springsteen’s single “Born to Run” in 1975 when the future music biographer was a 12-year-old kid in a car headed home from a hike with his Boy Scout troop. He was, ...

(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 ...