Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen Zirilli. Nació en Freehold, New Jersey, EE UU, el 23 de septiembre de 1949 de padre irlandés (Douglas Springsteen) y de madre italiana (Adele Zirilli). Creció en Freehold, Nueva Jersey.
Editó su primer disco en 1972, llamado "Greetings from Asbury Park", que vendió apenas 25.000 copias y tuvo poca acogida por la crítica. Su siguiente disco fue "The Wild, the Innocent and the E street Shuffle", editado al año siguiente, que tuvo una repercusión mayor.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
BB Well they closed down the auto plant in Mahwah late that month BF# Ralph went out lookin' for a job but he couldn't find none BB He came home too drunk from mixin'Tanqueray and wine BF#B He got a gun shot a night clerk now they call him Johnny 99 Down in the part of town where when you hit a red light you don't stop BF# Johnny's wavin' his gun around and threatenin' to blow his top B When an off duty cop snuck up on him from behind BF#B Out in front of the Club Tip Top they slapped the cuffs on Johnny 99 EB Well the city supplied a public defender but the judge was Mean John Brown BF# He came into the courtroom and stared poor Johnny down B Well the evidence is clear gonna let the sentence son fit the crime BF#B Prison for 98 and a year and we'll call it even Johnny 99
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EB A fistfight broke out in the courtroom they had to drag Johnny's girl away F# His mama stood up and shouted Judge don't take my boy this way B Well son you got any statement you'd like to make BF#B Before the bailiff comes to forever take you away Now judge judge I had debts no honest man could pay BF# The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they was takin' my house away B Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man BF#B But it was more 'n all this that put that gun in my hand Well your honour I do believe I'd be better off dead F# And if you can take a man's life for the thoughts that's in his head B Then won't you sit back in that chair and think it over judge one more time BF#B And let 'em shave off my hair and put me on that execution line