CREEMEDIA
Lucky for Dave Marsh that Bruce Springsteen’s career reads like something out of West Side Story. Most unauthorized rock bios are about as interesting as their subject matter, which usually means they’re boring as hell. These kind of things are cranked out regularly by rock writers who need the bucks, and the worst of them—the Fleetwood Mac bios, the Peter Frampton bios, the Wings bios—all read like 100-page press releases, snooze-a-minute, read-it-and-sleep money grabbers.
CREEMEDIA
Kill The Proofreaders
BORN TO RUN:
THE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN STORY
Dave Marsh
(Doubleday/Dolphin)
Dave DiMartino _
Lucky for Dave Marsh that Bruce Springsteen’s career reads like something out of West Side Story. Most unauthorized rock bios are about as interesting as their subject matter, which usually means they’re boring as hell. These kind of things are cranked out regularly by rock writers who need the bucks, and the worst of them—the Fleetwood Mac bios, the Peter Frampton bios, the Wings bios—all read like 100-page press releases, snooze-a-minute, read-it-and-sleep money grabbers. Not so with Born to Run, though. It’s not only respectable reading, it’s a great precedent for future rock-bio writers to set their standards by.
What makes it so hot? For starters, Marsh is a former editor of this rag, so he obviously knows hisstuff. Plus he’s a good writer, obviously interested in his subject matter and, most importantly, Bruce-the-Moose ain’tMeetwood Flak or Frampers by a long shot.