Who Is Bruce Springsteen [Paperback]

USNot only was Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA, he has risen to become a twenty-time Grammy winner and American icon.

Bruce Springsteen grew up in a blue-collar New Jersey town, where his parents struggled to make ends meet. Bruce didn't fit in at school but found solace in rock and roll and playing guitar. After the breakup of a local band he'd joined, Springsteen went out on his own and people began to take notice. He signed with Columbia Records and under pressure to come up with a hit, wrote Born in the USA, which tells the story of America during the years of the Vietnam War. A multi-millionaire and twenty-time Grammy winner, the Boss has remained a working class hero whose music deals with the political and social changes in our country.Stephanie is a native of the Jersey Shore and a graduate of Boston College. She currently resides in Hoboken, New Jersey.Who Is Bruce Springsteen?
 
December 1964
 
It was a cold winter day in northern New Jersey. A teenage boy brought his mother to the local music store. There, in the front window, was a black and gold electric guitar. The boy wanted it so much. He loved to play the guitar. But it cost sixty dollars. Back then, that was a lot of money. It was more money than his mother had. So they left the store without the guitar.
 
But that is not the end of the story. A few days later, the boy’s mother went to the bank and took out a loan. On Christmas Day, her son woke up to find the guitar waiting for him under the tree.
 
That teenage boy was Bruce Springsteen. And he grew up to become one of the most famous rock-and-roll stars ever. For forty years, people have been inspired by the messages in his songs. They are songs about the joy of being alive and the pain of a broken heart. They offer comfort during hard times. They make people proud to be Americans.
 
Bruce Springsteen never forgot that special guitar. It changed everything. In l3.