Bruce Springsteen: The Rolling Stone Files

by Rolling Stone Magazine, Parke Puterbaugh (Introduction)

The Rolling Stone Files is the ultimate collection of articles, facts, and opinions spanning Bruce Springsteen's entire history, featuring interviews, thoughts, and reflections from the Boss in his own words. The book is part biography, part autobiography, part insightful rock history--an incredible tribute to the Everyman of rock, one of its most beloved and enduring icons.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

353 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Rolling Stone is a U.S.-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner (who is still editor and publisher) and music critic Ralph J. Gleason.

Reviews

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the stuff in here is filler, but the album reviews, interviews, and essays are great. Rolling Stone is obviously a fan of the Boss.

[Dave Christian · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a lifelong Springsteen fan and a long-time Rolling Stone reader I had read almost all of the material in this book (except for some of the very early articles). So it didn't present new information to me but it was interesting how it re-contextualized some things given the ability to look backward.

The most interesting thing to me what how prescient some of the authors were in evaluating what direction Springsteen might (and did) take.

If you're a big Springsteen fan (and especially if you have not read this Rolling Stone material before) you would enjoy it.

[Reptillian Kujawa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting for completists. But since it is just rolling stone articles they spend a lot of time perpetuating the same age old mythology from month to month. But Rolling Stone never fully acknowledges the fact that Time and Newsweek caught on to the Springsteen buzz long before they did.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

some really good, lengthy, interviews.....

[Drew Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

10 subject; 6 writing