Biographie

Film noir: Many of his songs are influenced by films, particularly 1940s and 1950s film noir.

Often plays the Fender Telecaster with a Fender Esquire neck on stage for which he paid $185.

Often writes songs about his youth in New Jersey and average people in the everyday struggle

Known for fraternizing with audience members and sharing anecdotes about locations during live shows

Religious imagery in songs

1999: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where Bono of U2 gave the induction speech. When U2 was inducted in 2005, Springsteen gave their induction speech, returning the favor.

10/27/75: Has appeared on the covers of both Time and Newsweek magazines simultaneously. Previously this only happened to world leaders.

Paul Schrader asked Springsteen to write a title song for a movie he had written called "Born in the USA". After Springsteen wrote it, he liked the song so much, he used it for his multi-platinum album of the same name instead. As a replacement, Springsteen wrote another song and that song title became the film's new title, Electric Blue (1987). That is why Springsteen thanks Schrader in the liner notes of the album.

While he was composing the song "Fire" in the mid 1970s, in his mind he was imagining it being sung by Elvis Presley. Elvis died a few years later, having never heard the song. It became a huge hit for The Pointer Sisters in 1979.

His Oscar-winning song "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia (1993) was ranked #68 on The American Film Institute's list of "The 100 Years of The Greatest Songs".

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

[During his Oscar acceptance speech]: Thanks for inviting me to your party.

[About Elvis Presley] He was as big as the whole country itself, as big as the whole dream. He just embodied the essence of it and he was in mortal combat with the thing. Nothing will ever take the place of that guy.

[About Elvis Presley] There have been a lot of tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one King.