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Bruce Springsteen records more than a dozen demos for A+R man John Hammond of Columbia Records in New York City, USA. The songs include Mary Queen Of Arkansas, It’s Hard to Be A Saint In The City, Growin' Up and Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street, all of which will end up on his first album, Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ.Full article:
Bruce Springsteen : It was a big, big day for me… I was 22 and came up on the bus with an acoustic guitar with no case… I was embarrassed carrying it around the city. I walked into his office and had the audition, and I played a couple of songs and [Hammond] said, ‘You’ve got to be on Columbia Records.’ I knew a lot about John Hammond, the work he’d done, the people he’d discovered, his importance in music, and it was very exciting to feel you were worth his time. No matter what happened afterwards, even if it was just for this one night, you were worth his time. That meant a lot to me. He was very encouraging – simply being in that room with him at the board was one of my greatest recording experiences.
(Source : interview in Mojo magazine, 1998)
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(Source : interview in Mojo magazine, 1998)