As “The Boss” he fills the largest concert halls today. The career of Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band began in the seventies. The commercial breakthrough came in 1975 with the album “Born to Run”. It took Springsteen three years to release a new record, “Darkness on the Edge of Town.” The time in between was overshadowed by the legal dispute with his then manager Mike Appel. With “Darkness on the Edge of Town” Springsteen wanted to prove that he was not the one-hit wonder that the press thought he was at the time.
Work on the album began in the fall of 1977 – Springsteen and his bandmates were accompanied by the US photographer Lynn Goldsmith. “She was just an enchanting presence who showed up in the studio one evening and photographed the band,” writes Springsteen in an illustrated book that has now been published by Taschen.
The book includes hundreds of images that Goldsmith took during the making of “Darkness on the Edge of Town” and on the subsequent tour. “These photos remain as documents of a moment when I was truly playing for my life, night after night, without ever thinking about it,” Springsteen said.
Lynn Goldsmith. “Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band” is in Bags Publishing appeared and costs 600 euros.