Bruce Springsteen Passiac 1978

Bruce Springsteen once said he intended to make an album with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector where he sang like Roy Orbison, a nifty summary of many, but not all, of his artistic ambitions and a key to his appeal. Unlike any other singer/songwriters saddled with the appellation of "the new Dylan" in the early '70s, Springsteen never hid how he was raised on '60s AM radio.

In October 2017 Bruce Springsteen opened his residency at the Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 West 48th Street, New York City. Titled Springsteen On Broadway, the show was formatted as a solo performance by The Boss, in which he related his musical and personal history, interspersing musical performances on guitar and piano with spoken word anecdotes and reflections on his life and work. Springsteen On Broadway was part of a general theme of reflection in Springsteen s work during the second decade of the millennium. It opened a year after the publication of his autobiography, Born To Run, and the accompanying album retrospective, Chapter & Verse.