NEW YORK - AUGUST: Clarence Clemons and Bruce Springsteen perform on stage on Born To Run tour during a residency at the Bottom Line in August 1975 in New York. (Photo by Richard E. Aaron/Redferns) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. By 1975, Bruce Springsteen was already a rock hero in his home ...

Over 50 years since its first release, a record that helped define an era almost had its songwriter dropped from his label.

As any music critic knows, revealing fresh insight about work so prominent as to have become one with a bygone era’s zeitgeist is challenging in the extreme. Bruce Springsteen’s 1975-released magnum ...