{"id":16834,"date":"2025-08-22T20:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:02:07","slug":"bruce-springsteen-drops-born-to-run-outtake-lonely-night-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/16834\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Drops Born to Run Outtake ‘Lonely Night In the Park’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBruce Springsteen<\/a>\u2018s unreleased song vault is a source of seemingly infinite wonders. Just two months after releasing seven shelved albums on Tracks II: The Lost Albums<\/a>, Springsteen has gone back into the vault and emerged with the Born to Run outtake \u201cLonely Night in the Park\u201d that he\u2019s sharing to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the landmark LP.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLonely Night In the Park\u201d was recorded at New York\u2019s Record Plant across two days in May 1975, and came very close to appearing on Born to Run. Springsteen included it on several proposed Born to Run track sequences in his notebooks, and Jon Landau argued it should be on the album instead of \u201cMeeting Across The River.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI won my way on things,\u201d former Springsteen manager\/Born to Run co-producer Mike Appel told Backstreets in 1990. \u201cWhen [Landau] and Bruce would say \u2018Here\u2019s Lonely Night in the Park and Linda Let Me be the One.\u2019 They came in and they thought that was going to be a commercial song. And I won my way. I said \u2018These are such dogs and the lyrics are so bad.\u2019 I said, just go away. I said these songs aren\u2019t staying on the record \u2212 over my dead body. I told him this stuff was \u2018shit.\u2019 And nobody today would talk to him like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLonely Night In the Park\u201d remained little more than a myth until SiriusXM\u2019s E Street Radio played the song in 2005, around the album\u2019s 30th anniversary. The credits for this new version include Steve Van Zandt and Ron Aniello on guitar, confirming there were recent overdubs on the original studio recording. (Van Zandt didn\u2019t join the E Street Band until the Born to Run tour, and Aniello didn\u2019t enter Springsteen\u2019s orbit until the 2000s.) But they stuck with Springsteen\u2019s vocal track from 1975.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 30th anniversary of Born to Run in 2005 was celebrated with a new box set and documentary. The plans are a little more muted for the 50th this year, but the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center For American Music is holding a 50th anniversary symposium at Monmouth University\u2019s Pollak Theatre on September 6. According to the official website<\/a>, the symposium will feature \u201cpanels, presentations, and interviews with members of Bruce Springsteen\u2019s E Street Band, as well as with journalists and historians, music industry legends, and special guests.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\tThat evening, an expanded lineup of Max Weinberg\u2019s Jukebox will play the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park, New Jersey. \u201cSurprises in store!\u201d Weinberg promised in a Tweet<\/a> promoting the event.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf all of this doesn\u2019t fulfill your Born to Run 50 needs, Peter Ames Carlin \u2014 author of the definitive Springsteen biography Bruce<\/a> \u2014 has just released Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run.<\/a> It features new interviews with Springsteen, Landau, Appel, and members of the E Street Band. Check out an exclusive excerpt about the messy birth of \u201cJungleland\u201d right here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen\u2018s unreleased song vault is a source of seemingly infinite wonders. Just two months after releasing seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[15248,18,117,19,17,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-16834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bruce-springsteen","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}