'Greetings from Asbury Park,' Bruce Springsteen's debut album, was released 50 years ago

"Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." was released Jan. 5, 1973. The city is celebrating the anniversary with concerts.

Bruce Springsteen talks about music, growing up, his fans and Asbury Park (1996)

After meeting Bruce Springsteen backstage at the Paramount Theatre last Sunday, APP music writer Kelly-Jane Cotter ...
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Bruce Springsteen’s Long Journey Home

Passing Madam Marie’s, the fortune teller immortalized in his 1973 ballad “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” I suggest that ...
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In 1973, Bruce Springsteen Wrote the Greatest Summer Song Ever

Less than five minutes into The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, I greet “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” and its pull-apart, inexhaustible fountain of story. I turn to what Philip Seymour ...