Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons for Born To Run (1976)

Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons. Chicago, October 10, 1980. (Photo by Kirk West)

Outtakes from the photo session for the cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town” (1978).

You want it, you take it, you pay the price.

PROVE IT ALL NIGHT (PHOENIX, 1978)

“I remember, growing up, at night, and my dad would sit in the kitchen with all the lights out and he waited for me to come in, and he’d sit there and drink, and I’d stand in the driveway and I’d look into his screen door, and I could see the light of a cigarette, and then I’d rush up on the porch and try to get by him but he’d always call me back. And it was like he was always… always angry. Always mad. He’d be sitting there thinking about everything that he was never gonna have, until… until he’d get me thinking like that too. And I’d lay up in my bed, at night, and be staring at the ceiling, and I’d feel like if something didn’t happen, if something didn’t happen soon, it felt like I was just gonna… like some day, like I was just gonna… “  - Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen’s original motorcycle jacket from the cover of ‘Born to Run.‘ 

Bruce Springsteen by Frank Stefanko, 1978

Bruce Springsteen (Detail 1), 1992 - Ph. Herb Ritts

bruce springsteen ph by david mcgough

made another bruce springsteen dyke gender envy moodboard

Bruce Springsteen, Newcastle 1981

Bruce Springsteen © Frank Stefanko

Bruce Springsteen jamming at age 20. Photo credit: Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen photographed by Andy Warhol, 1978