His mother took out a loan to buy him a better guitar and he never, despite plenty of indications that he should have at least thought about it, looked back.
#THE WILD THE INNOCENT AND THE E STREET SHUFFLE LYRICS TV#
It didn’t take, but when The Beatles played the same TV show in 1964, Springsteen was lost forever. His father suffered from his own demons, exacerbated by drinking, so Springsteen turned his love on his mother, who rented a guitar for her young lad after he saw Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show when he was still only about 7. Later on, as things got more serious for The Boss, he would sing in ‘Badlands’ that “it ain’t no sin to be glad your alive.” He has made many, many great records, and he’s still making them, but he never made one that sang more about the joy of living than this the joy of living, the dream of freedom.Īs everybody knows, Springsteen came from a working class background in New Jersey. Of all the records that beckon you into this golden Avalon of the heart and mind, there are few, if any, that do it with such a joie de vivre grin on its face as the second Bruce Springsteen album, The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle. To never grow up, to stay in a gang with your friends, to be constantly on the move from place to place, to live a life devoted to the arts, to never sit at a desk unless you choose to, to never even consider purchasing an alarm clock: Who wouldn’t want that? Eternal youth, free booze, and constant favours from whatever sexual partner(s) is/are of interest to you are all part of it, sure, but what really interested me was the promise of freedom.
I’m talking here about the glorious dream that rock n’ roll sells you. The circus dream stayed with me, to be replaced, in time, by the dream of being in a rock n’ roll band.
Or, failing that, become some sort of cowboy/pirate hybrid. When I was a young lad I wanted to run away with the circus.
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