But it was far from born.
"It was his head from 'Born in the U.S.A.' made out of stone with the bandanna and everything".
Last month Springsteen teased fans by publishing a brief foreword from Born to Run, the memoir, on his website.
They are mostly men who have reached the minivan stage of life but still hear the refrain from "Born to Be Wild".
Chemical Brothers "Sometimes I feel so deserted" from Born in the Echoes I've been an uber-fan since I was a teenager, withExit Planet Dust as my all-time favourite album.
"Houston, TX" comes from "Born on Flag Day" (Partisan), Deer Tick's winningly ragged 2009 album, and in the original arrangement it's a lilting shuffle, offered in tribute to the Bakersfield sound.
"They're all Jersey boys, and we all lined up and went, 'Tramps like us!'" she said, quoting a lyric from Born to Run, the 1975 single after which he named his new book.
The relationship between Springsteen and cars is long-charted; from Born to Run to Stolen Car via Thunder Road, the open road represents freedom – and perhaps also that "self" that compromise threatens to lose.
In an era when pop hits can be as ephemeral as a deleted MP3 file, Mr. Springsteen has spent much of his career laboring to write durable songs about American dreams, from "Born to Run" to "Promised Land".
"So he came down from born in 1935 at that time, solidifying his place in the team as 1933 born and when I wrote his book in 1980 he finally conceded he was born in 1928.
