BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born To Run UK CBS - UNPLAYED/MINT
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Apr 13, 2015 Sold Date
Mar 31, 2015 Start Date
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born To Run UK CBS - UNPLAYED/MINT

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Born To Run

UK CBS ‎(69170) PRESSING
GATEFOLD SLEEVE PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England”
STUNNING COPY IN UNPLAYED/MINT CONDITION

RECORD: MINT shines like new without a mark
LABELS: MINT no spindle traces or any signs of use
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT as crisp, sharp and fresh as the day it was made with nothing but a tiny touch of rub on the spine
NOTE: I have not played this copy but left it in its true unplayed/mint state (fully guaranteed - see below)

MATRIX: CBS - S - 69170 - A5 / CBS - S - 69170 - B4

Bruce Springsteen's make-or-break third album represented a sonic leap from his first two, which had been made for modest sums at a suburban studio; Born to Run was cut on a superstar budget, mostly at the Record Plant in New York. Springsteen's backup band had changed, with his two virtuoso players, keyboardist David Sancious and drummer Vini Lopez, replaced by the professional but less flashy Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg. The result was a full, highly produced sound that contained elements of Phil Spector's melodramatic work of the 1960s. Layers of guitar, layers of echo on the vocals, lots of keyboards, thunderous drums -- Born to Run had a big sound, and Springsteen wrote big songs to match it. The overall theme of the album was similar to that of The E Street Shuffle; Springsteen was describing, and saying farewell to, a romanticised teenage street life. But where he had been affectionate, even humorous before, he was becoming increasingly bitter. If Springsteen had celebrated his dead-end kids on his first album and viewed them nostalgically on his second, on his third he seemed to despise their failure, perhaps because he was beginning to fear he was trapped himself. Nevertheless, he now felt removed, composing an updated West Side Story with spectacular music that owed more to Bernstein than to Berry. To call Born to Run overblown is to miss the point; Springsteen's precise intention is to blow things up, both in the sense of expanding them to gargantuan size and of exploding them. If The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle was an accidental miracle, Born to Run was an intentional masterpiece. It declared its own greatness with songs and a sound that lived up to Springsteen's promise, and though some thought it took itself too seriously, many found that exalting

Side 1:
Thunder Road (4:50)
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out (3:11)
Night (3:01)
Backstreets (6:29)
Side 2:
Born To Run (4:30)
She's The One (4:30)
Meeting Across The River (3:16)
Jungleland (9:33)

POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £8.00 (International standard small parcel)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £12 (International standard small parcel)

Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way I will email you when payment has been received to let you know when the item will be posted. Please leave feedback upon receipt of the item so that I know you have received it safely. Thanks  606 (GS 6.9.3 (606))


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