Bruce Springsteen Tickets

In the fall of 1975, Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition after 10 years of hard work, and he was hailed as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s rock and the thoughtfulness of '60s rock, molded into a '70s style -- rocking as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis with lyrics as complicated as Bob Dylan's -- his concerts were near-religious celebrations of all that was best in music.

That year, Springsteen landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek, but both magazines were covering the phenomenon, not the music. Springsteen's album, Born to Run, became a hit, and he jumped to arena status as a live act, but as many people were turned off by the press campaign as turned on by the records and shows. Two decades later, however, Springsteen was no doubt an established star who could look back on a career that had produced one of the best-selling albums of all time (Born in the U.S.A.), numerous sold-out stadium tours, Grammy Awards and an Oscar, and a group of imitators who constituted their own subgenre of popular music, Heartland Rock.