On the 45th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town,' here are 10 things you didn’t know about the gritty classic.
–the camera pans away, and whatever happened, that’s what happened. The songs I write, they don’t have particular beginnings and they don’t have endings. The camera focuses in and then out.”The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town
“In country music, I found the adult blues, the working men’s and women’s stories I’d been searching for, the grim recognition of the chips that were laid down against you,” Springsteen recalled in his SXSW keynote speech. “It was ‘Working Man’s Blues’ – stoic recognition of everyday reality, and the small and big things that allow you to put a foot in front of the other and get you through. I found that country’s fatalism attracted me. It was reflective. It was funny. It was soulful.
“So I came up with titles, and I went in search of songs that would deserve the title. ‘Badlands,’ that’s a great title, but it would be easy to blow it. But I kept writing and I kept writing and I kept writing and writing until I had a song that I felt deserved that title. Same with ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town,’ I had that title and said, ‘Well, I’d better come up with something that deserves that title.
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