Bruce Springsteen Trivia: Born to Run

The title track took well over a year and dozens of sessions to finish — Springsteen and the E Street Band kept reworking arrangements and overdubs until they built the dense, "big" sound he wanted

The record was deliberately engineered as a modern "Wall of Sound": Bruce and the producers layered multiple guitars, pianos, sax, and percussion to create a huge, cinematic mix that was unusual for heartland rock at the time