Bruce Springsteen performs in Atlanta on Aug. 22, 1975, during the 'Born to Run' tour. Tom Hill/WireImage via Getty Images I was 18 when Bruce Springsteen’s third album, “Born to Run,” was released 50 ...

I was 18 when Bruce Springsteen’s third album, “Born to Run,” was released 50 years ago, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. I’d just finished my freshman year in college, and I was lost. My ...

Peter Ames Carlin first heard Bruce Springsteen’s single “Born to Run” in 1975 when the future music biographer was a 12-year-old kid in a car headed home from a hike with his Boy Scout troop. He was, ...