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Fact #64144

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Short story:

The demos that Bruce Springsteen recorded in January of this year are released as the album Nebraska, which peaks at No3 in both the USA and the UK.

Full article:

Walter Yetnikoff (CBS records boss) : He had a record called Nebraska which I called Omaha. In it, he didn't have a rock n' roll band. It was sorta him by himself. The songs were very good, I thought. And it was a maturation process. He said, "I need to go through this as a songwriter". And he did. And we said, "That's fine. We're not going to sell, you know, like a rock n' roll record. There was no Van Zandt on it or whatever but you know what? Go through it and we'll sell 800 to a million something like that. And he said "fine". And that's what we did.
(Source : http://www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/an+interview+with+former+cbs+head+walter+yetnikoff+full+session)