The illustrated biography bruce springsteen analysis

I've read a lot of Bruce Springsteen books. I've read his acclaimed autobiography, I've read Peter Ames Carlin's solid biography, I've read Dave Marsh's magnum opus. Did I need to read another one?

No...but you're not me.

You might be like me circa high school, when I was just getting into the live box set and discovering the depths of a guy I'd only known from his "Born in the U.S.A." hitmaking days of my '80s childhood.

Marsh's first Springsteen biography, a large-format illustrated volume called (what else?) Born to Run, served as my introduction to Springsteen's Jersey Shore history. I'd never even heard Born to Run, so I ran out and bought the (this being the '90s) 24K gold "Master Sound" CD.

Whatever your age, if you're just digging into Springsteen's long history (a full four decades longer now than it was when Marsh's book came out), the new edition of Meredith Ochs'