Born to Run (64 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book was written over a period of seven years. I’d write longhand into my notebook, then put it away at intervals, sometimes for a year or more while we toured or recorded. I was in no hurry and had no time pressures. This allowed me to come back to the book with fresh eyes to judge what I’d written. My story slowly unfolded into a long session of writing toward the end. Then,
with the help of those below, it reached completion.

All my love and thanks to Patti for giving me the room and understanding to tell the story I needed to tell.

Thanks to Jon Landau, one of my earliest readers, for his enthusiasm, advice and encouragement.

Many thanks to Jonathan Karp, who first worked with us on
Outlaw Pete,
for giving us a home. His eye and advice guided me to the best of
my writing and brought this book to its final fruition.

Special thanks to Mary Mac, my companion through the endless hours of rewrites as we transcribed my scribble into our home computer.

Thanks to Michelle Holme for curating our photo section, and to Frank Stefanko for our cover photo.

Thanks to my friend and old bandmate George Theiss for jogging my memory on some of our Castiles adventures.

I would like to thank Jon Landau, Allen Grubman, Jonathan Ehrlich and Don Friedman, who took care of the practical arrangements with Simon & Schuster, and a special thanks to Les Moonves for his helpfulness in this area, as well.

Thanks to Barbara Carr, who has handled the entire project with utmost dedication and effectiveness.

And thanks to Marilyn Laverty, who has been doing my public relations
for thirty-seven years, and Tracy Nurse, who has worked on our presentation internationally for thirty years.

Thanks to all at Simon & Schuster who have contributed to this effort, especially Marie Florio, Cary Goldstein, Richard Rhorer, Stephen Bedford, Jonathan Evans, John Paul Jones, Aja Pollock, Erica Ferguson, Lisa Erwin, Ruth Lee-Mui, Meryll Preposi, Miah Saunders, Samantha Cohen, Kristen
Lemire, Allison Har-zvi, Megan Hogan, Jackie Seow, Elisa Rivlin, Chris Lynch, Michael Selleck, Gary Urda, Paula Amendolara, Colin Shields, Sumya Ojakli, Dennis Eulau, Craig Mandeville, Jeff Wilson, John Felice, Liz Perl, Wendy Sheanin, Sue Fleming, Jofie Ferrari-Adler, Adam Rothberg, Irene Kheradi, Dave Schaeffer, Ian Chapman, Kevin Hanson, Iain MacGregor, Rahul Srivastava, Dan Ruffino and Carolyn
Reidy.

Thanks to Greg Linn and Betsy Whitney at Sony Music for their ongoing efforts. And finally, thanks to everyone in the management office who lent a hand: Jan Stabile, Alison Oscar and Laura Kraus.

PHOTO CREDITS

(Arranged by insert page number.)

INSERT

Author’s personal collection:
1
(all),
2
(all),
3
,
4
,
5
(bottom three),
12
(all),
13
(all),
14
(all),
15
(all),
16
(all)

Billy Smith Collection:
5
(top)

Art Maillet:
6
(top)

David Gahr:
6
(bottom two),
7
(top right),
10
(middle left),
11
(top three)

Roz Levin:
7
(top left, middle right, bottom)

Peter Cunningham:
8
(top left)

Time Magazine:
8
(middle right) © 1975 Time Inc. All rights reserved. TIME and the TIME logo are registered trademarks of Time Inc.

Eric Meola:
8
(bottom)

Frank Stefanko:
9
(all),
10
(bottom left and bottom right)

Joel Bernstein:
10
(top)

Neal Preston:
11
(bottom)

ENDPAPERS

Joel Bernstein (front)

Mary Alfieri (back)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the New Jersey Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of twenty Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors. He lives in New Jersey with his family. For more information, go to
www.brucespringsteen.net
.

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