i heard the title track on am radio upon its release and was immediately struck by the four-note opening riff--it's one of the very few songs that embedded in my memory the first time i heard it (a couple of credence and byrds songs had the same effect). i've never been as over-the-moon about the whole album--"jungleland" is kind of a slog and the production always sounded over-compressed to me. @larsma, never knew that about korvettes.
Where were you when you first heard ""Born To Run"?
It was 1975. I was on the floor of my childhood home listening to Syracuse University college radio station, WAER, on my Pioneer Sx-737 tuner. I was blown away from start to finish.
Prior to that release, music critic Jon Landau was quoted, "I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen".
Where were you when you first heard it?