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Bruce Springsteen’s 500-Page Tell-All Autobiography Took Seven Years To Write

By Stacey Cole
Published on: 17:50 PST, Sep 21, 2016

Bruce Springsteen is easily regarded as one of the world’s best musicians and performers, with a reputation for thrilling his audiences at his rock concerts. However, Bruce Springsteen’s recent revelations about his battle with depression have left many of his fans astounded.

Born to Run, the iconic singer’s upcoming autobiography, will enable fans to delve into Bruce Springsteen’s troubled mind that has been marred by depression since his childhood days in New Jersey when he used to confront his hard-drinking blue-collared father. According to The Australian, the “Thunder Road” singer started to seek professional help in the early 1980s when he visited a psychotherapist to cope with his mental illness.

Earlier, Bruce Springsteen had clearly expressed his state of mind through the lyrics of “This Depression,” a song that featured on the 2012 album titled Wrecking Ball (not to be confused with the infamous Miley Cyrus song of the same name).

It took seven long years for the singer to write his 500-page autobiography, which he proudly completed without the assistance or guidance of a professional writer.

As a part of his efforts to promote Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen will embark on a nine-date book tour across the USA and will appear in person at each stop of the tour to narrate interesting stories and real-life incidents which motivated him to overcome his depression and keep going. The cities included in The “Brilliant Disguise” singer’s book tour circuit are New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, and Boston.

According to Rolling Stone magazine, Bruce Springsteen revealed that he had to find his own way out of his anguish.

“I had to find the roots of my own troubles and issues and the joyful things that have allowed me to put on the kind of shows that we put on.”

In Bruce Springsteen’s opinion, a person’s mind is cluttered with different emotions that are wrestling with each other to take control of the person’s thoughts. The singer suggests that people focus on connecting with their positive emotions, claiming that it is nearly impossible to completely banish the negative feelings that tend to upset people during challenging times.

And Bruce Springsteen has found that the best way to connect with his positive self has been to hit the road to deliver sensitive and energetic performances at his concerts. In fact, the “Hungry Heart” singer believes that his rock concert is the most effective form of “self-medication” of all the methods that he has attempted over the years to help him to cope with his aggrieved state of mind.

Despite being 66 years old, the singer feels that his age has never been a constraint, and he has plans to continue building his bank of positive energy by performing at a string of concerts held throughout the year. Bruce Springsteen will be wrapping The River tour before he embarks on the Born to Run book tour that will end in October.

2017 will prove to be another eventful year for Bruce Springsteen, who is poised to kickstart his Australian tour in January next year. After touring the major Australian cities, Bruce will be heading to New Zealand to entertain his fans that are eagerly waiting for The Boss to bring his music to their shores once again.

The “Thunder Road” singer’s last Australian concert was held at the Allphones Arena in Sydney in 2014 when he performed with the E-Street Band as a part of the High Hopes tour. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Bruce Springsteen’s upcoming Australian tour will have shows that may well extend beyond the usual concert duration of four hours.

As is the case with most of his shows, the iconic singer’s upcoming concerts will enable his fans to see the legendary singer mingling freely with the audience. Recently, while performing on a show in Philadelphia, the iconic singer spotted a college student who was flashing a sign board that had guitar tabs for “No Surrender,” a popular song from the album Born in the USA. According to Billboard, Bruce Springsteen not only invited the college student to join him on stage to perform the song, but he also encouraged his guitarist fan by giving him a hug and posing with him for a selfie.

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