“I just couldn’t relate to him at all. I could see that he was thinking, Who is this weird guy?” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the songs that resulted in Springsteen securing said record deal was based on his own life. "Growin' Up" tells the story of ...

George Theiss remembers the day quite clearly. The day he and some of his buddies at Freehold Regional High School walked into the bathroom at school and came out with their hair combed down over ...

Originally published Oct. 5, 1987 in the Bergen Record. On his first album, "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey," Bruce Springsteen sang about "Growin Up." That theme, in one form or another, was ...