There was no shortage of major global events for the weekly news magazines to cover in October 1975. The last smallpox patient on Earth was treated in Bangladesh; Francisco Franco’s dictatorship came ...

In his new book, Tonight in Jungleland, Peter Ames Carlin says that Bruce Springsteen chose to have Clarence Clemons on the cover of Born to Run with him in part to stand against racism Carlin spoke ...

Bruce Springsteen carved out such a unique identity as a performer that it was often difficult to imagine anyone but him recording his songs. That hasn’t stopped artists of all stripes from trying to ...

Mr. Alterman is the author of “It Ain’t No Sin to Be Glad You’re Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen.” Since the 1980s, Bruce Springsteen has been writing songs that emphasized, even romanticized, ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...