A pivotal scene in the Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson-led The Smashing Machine features the iconic Bruce Springsteen song from Born to Run, “Jungleland.” It is played in the background of a heated argument ...

Bruce Springsteen, shown during the "Born to Run" tour in 1975, tinkered with the album until the very last minute, Peter Ames Carlin writes in "Tonight in Jungleland." (Richard E. Aaron / Redferns ...

There’s an unexpected little holiday gift for fans of Bruce Springsteen just in time for your New Year’s Eve celebration.

Peter Ames Carlin first heard Bruce Springsteen’s single “Born to Run” in 1975 when the future music biographer was a 12-year-old kid in a car headed home from a hike with his Boy Scout troop. He was, ...

In “Tonight in Jungleland,” Mr. Carlin, the author of a 2012 biography of Mr. Springsteen, revisits the creation of his subject’s 1975 album, “Born to Run,” whose title track was exactly what Columbia ...