Boss' Day on WYEP

• 06/02/08 Celebrating the anniversary of a Springsteen classic

  Released June 2, 1978 Darkness on the Edge of Town was Bruce Springsteen’s 4th release, and for many Springsteen fans, his finest release.

  On Monday June 2nd between 7am and 5pm WYEP will celebrate our own Boss’s Day. We’ll be playing a different track from Darkness on the Edge of Town each hour, plus some other Springsteen classics and deep tracks throughout the day.

  We will wrap up Boss’ Day at WYEP with a Discumentary on the classic album at 5pm.

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  Everyone knows Bruce Springsteen’s story. He’s from New Jersey. His band is The E Street Band. His nickname is The Boss. And his third release, Born To Run, is not only is a classic, but it thrust him firmly on the path to super-stardom. It was such a big deal that it got him on the cover of Time and Newsweek in the same week.

  Springsteen had faced the pressure of breakthrough success. Now the pressure was on for a great follow-up album. Due to legal battles with his manager, the greatly anticipated follow up to Born To Run wasn’t released until 4 years later. And what a follow up it was.

  Darkness on the Edge of Town is packed with the themes of regret, love, redemption, dashed hopes, struggles between father and son, and cries to overcome and persevere.

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  Darkness on the Edge of Town
  All songs written by Bruce Springsteen.
  1. “Badlands”
  2. “Adam Raised a Cain”
  3. “Something in the Night”
  4. “Candy’s Room”
  5. “Racing in the Street”
  6. “The Promised Land”
  7. “Factory”
  8. “Streets of Fire”
  9. “Prove It All Night”
  10. “Darkness on the Edge of Town”

  Darkness Trivia:

  During the Darkness sessions, Springsteen wrote or recorded many songs that he ended up not using on the album. This was to keep the album’s thematic feel intact, even at the expense of not having hits on it.[1] Some of the unused material became hits for other artists, such as “Because the Night” for Patti Smith, “Fire” for Robert Gordon and The Pointer Sisters, “Rendezvous” for Greg Kihn, “This Little Girl” for Gary “U.S.” Bonds, and several tracks for Southside Johnny (including much of their Hearts of Stone album). Other songs such as “Independence Day”, “Point Blank”, “The Ties That Bind”, and “Sherry Darling” would turn up on Springsteen’s next album, The River, while still others became bootleg classics until surfacing on Springsteen’s late 1990s collections Tracks and 18 Tracks.

  The album cover shot and inner sleeve photo were taken by photographer, Frank Stefanko, inside Stefanko’s home in Haddonfield, New Jersey

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