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57-445: Though much is made of the six months it took to record " Born to Run ", "Jungleland" was not completed until 19 months after its first rehearsal take on January 8, 1974, at 914 Sound Studios , Blauvelt , New York . It was on July 12, 1974, at The Bottom Line , New York , that Springsteen finally decided to debut it live; at this juncture it is still very much of a piece like other jazzed-up mini-operas from The Wild, The Innocent and

114-637: A popular music magazine. Originally published in print in the UK from 1986 to 2020, it was inactive from 2020 until 2023. In 2023, Q was revived as an online publication. It was founded in 1986 by broadcast journalists Mark Ellen and David Hepworth , who were presenters of the BBC television music series The Old Grey Whistle Test . Q 's final printed issue was published in July 2020, but began posting new articles to their website in 2023 before being fully relaunched in 2024. Q

171-491: A snooker magazine. Another reason, cited in Q ' s 200th edition, is that a single-letter title would be more prominent on newsstands. In January 2008, EMAP sold its consumer magazine titles, including Q , to the Bauer Media Group . Bauer put the title up for sale in 2020, alongside Car Mechanic , Modern Classics , Your Horse , and Sea Angler . Publication ceased in July 2020 as Kelsey Media decided to buy

228-403: A Special Collector's Issue of the magazine (Q414), which it had intended to be the last edition before deciding to attempt to sell the publication to another media group. This issue was more of a 'throwback' publication, similar to what Mojo had been doing, and featured articles and acts from 34 years of Q magazine. With other firms, such as Long Live Vinyl's owner Anthem Publishing, ending

285-423: A free copy of "The Greatest Rock and Pop Miscellany … Ever!", modelled on Schott's Original Miscellany . Every issue of Q had a different message on the spine. Some readers tried to work out what the message had to do with the contents of the magazine. This practice (known as the "spine line") has since become commonplace among British lifestyle magazines, including Q ' s sister publication Empire and

342-468: A full-service radio station with a complete roster. Shows and presenters include Drivetime with Danielle Perry and Q the 80s with Matthew Rudd . The station was transmitted on the digital television networks in the UK and online. Coldplay were involved with the launch of the station by giving an exclusive interview on Q's flagship programme QPM on the launch day. It was based in Birmingham alongside

399-469: A much simpler core: getting out of Freehold . U.S. Route 9 , a highway passing through Freehold, is mentioned from the lyric "sprung from cages out on Highway 9". In his 1996 book Songs , Springsteen relates that while the beginning of the song was written on guitar around the opening riff, the song's writing was finished on piano, the instrument that most of the Born to Run album was composed on. The song

456-544: A new magazine called Empire in 1989 (the idea being that Empire would be 'Q with films'), the movie reviews migrated to the new publication, with Q becoming a magazine focused on music (one found for sale alongside Select and Vox in various magazine racks). In the 1990s, former NME staff writers, such as Andrew Collins , Danny Kelly , Stuart Maconie , and Charles Shaar Murray joined Paul Du Noyer and Adrian Deevoy at Q . Music coverage in IPC's 'inkie' indie weekly

513-459: A number of non-music titles from Bauer ( Sea Angler , Car Mechanics and Your Horse ), making the 28 July 2020 issue (Q415) the last to be published. The end of the print version of Q was blamed both on lower circulation and advertising revenue caused by the COVID-19 pandemic , as well as being "a symptom of an expert-free internet age." Following the sale of the brand to Empire Media Group, Q

570-499: A parody of " Born to Run ", is more musically and lyrically reminiscent of "Jungleland". The post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel The Stand by Stephen King opens with three epigraphs, one of which is the final lyrics from the song. According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon: Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen song) " Born to Run " is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen and

627-465: A rendezvous for the night". Another from the second verse, was "The streets alive with tough-kid Jets in Nova-light machines, boys flash guitars like bayonets and rip holes in their jeans", until it became, "The street's alive as secret debts are paid, contacts made, they vanished unseen, Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine", also in July 1975. He changed the bridge and

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684-466: A special edition magazine called "The 150 Greatest Rock Lists Ever" published in July 2004. Q also produced a number of special editions devoted to a single act/artist like U2 or Nirvana , but these magazines stopped in 2018, with its sister magazine, Mojo (also owned by Bauer) continuing to produce specials devoted to artists like Bob Dylan . Promotional gifts were given away, such as cover-mounted CDs or books. The January 2006 issue included

741-399: A star-rating system from one to five stars; indeed, the rating an album received in Q was often added to print and television advertising for the album in the UK and Ireland. While its content was non-free they hosted an archive of all of their magazine covers. Much of the magazine was devoted to interviews with popular music artists. According to Alexis Petridis of The Guardian , it

798-769: A violinist, Suki Lahav , who would make important contributions to "Jungleland". In the following months, "Jungleland" was played live regularly, losing its jazz influences, adding Suki's violin to the introduction, and Springsteen making many lyrical modifications. On April 18, 1975, sessions moved to The Record Plant in New York City , with Jon Landau now co-producer, and his "keen young engineer" Jimmy Iovine , replacing Louis Lahav, who had returned to Israel with his wife, Suki, after her last show in March. Suki would appear on Born to Run by overdubs of her violin and background vocals. Final sessions took place on July 14, 19 and 20, as

855-506: The New Jersey State Assembly passed a resolution naming "Born to Run" the "unofficial rock theme of our State's youth." The bill failed to pass the state Senate , owing to some of the song's lyrics being about a desire to leave New Jersey. The song has been played at nearly every non-solo Springsteen concert since 1975 (although it was not included in the 2006 Sessions Band Tour ) and is his most-performed song live. Most of

912-444: The Q Awards from 1990 until 2019. The Q Awards came to an end along with the publication itself. According to the global business magazine Campaign in 2008, Q had been criticised for "playing it safe" with its album reviews and cover mounts. In its early years it was sneered at as "uncool and lacking edge", with Steven Wells from NME calling it "the magazine that says 'Hey kids, it's alright to like Dire Straits '". In

969-583: The Wings For Wheels documentary DVD included in the 2005 reissue Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition package. On January 8, 1974, Springsteen met his manager, Mike Appel , Clarence Clemons , and the other members of his band at 914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, New York , to rehearse two new compositions, " Jungleland " and "Born to Run", both of which were lacking lyrics. He continued working on both songs at his home in New Jersey. The original backing track

1026-405: The 7,500 most important songs between 1944 and 2000. Additionally, the song is much beloved by fans and critics and continuously makes it onto lists of Springsteen's best songs. It is ranked number 298 on Rolling Stone' s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time . In concert, "Jungleland" is usually played towards the end of shows. During the E Street Band's reunion tour in 1999 and 2000, it

1083-465: The E Street Shuffle , influenced by David Sancious . When the E Street Band assembled at 914 Sound Studios on August 1, 1974, it was to secure a usable basic track for "Jungleland", "already earmarked as the centrepiece of the album". The August 1 tape box suggests they cut two takes of "Jungleland", the second complete. Later that month, David Sancious and drummer Ernest "Boom" Carter gave their notice, replaced by Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg , and

1140-451: The U.S.A. Tour , interspersed with clips of other songs' performances from the same tour. It closed with a "Thank you" message to Springsteen's fans. In 1988, director Meiert Avis shot a video of an acoustic version of the song during the Tunnel of Love Express tour. Both videos are included in the compilations Video Anthology / 1978-88 and The Complete Video Anthology / 1978-2000 . At

1197-452: The end of the tour's second leg, during the second of two shows in Gothenburg , Sweden on July 28, 2012. In a hugely emotional moment Clemons' nephew Jake Clemons performed the signature saxophone solo, occupying Clarence's usual spot on the stage. After the song, both Springsteen and Roy Bittan gave Jake a hug. The song has since rejoined Springsteen's live rotation. John Malkovich used

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1254-533: The entire Born to Run album, beginning with a sense of desperate hope that slides slowly into despair and defeat. The song opens with the "Magic Rat" "driving his sleek machine/over the Jersey state line" and meeting up with the "Barefoot Girl", with whom he "takes a stab at romance and disappears down Flamingo Lane". The song portrays some scenes of the city and gang life in which the Rat is involved, with occasional references to

1311-444: The final verse, "In the tunnel of machines you’ll hear the screams drowned out by the trains"; by October 1974, it became "In the tunnel of machines the magic Rat chases his dreams", and finally, by July 1975, "In the tunnels uptown, the Rat's own dream guns him down", killed by the runaway American dream. In September 2004, Q rated "Jungleland" one of the "1010 songs you must own". In 2005, Bruce Pollock rated "Jungleland" as one of

1368-578: The football monthly FourFourTwo . The magazine had a relationship with the Glastonbury Festival , producing both a free daily newspaper on-site during the festival and a review magazine available at the end of the event. This was first started as a Select magazine spin-off, though as Q moved its focus to the Britpop and indie rock stars of the 1990s, it was decided that EMAP did not need two monthly titles (and Raw magazine as well) covering

1425-455: The gang's conflict with police. The last two stanzas , coming after Clemons' extended solo, describe the death of the Rat and his dream, which "guns him down" in the "tunnels uptown", and the end of the love between him and the Barefoot Girl. The song concludes with a description of the final fall of the Rat and the lack of impact his death has: "No one watches as the ambulance pulls away/Or as

1482-492: The girl shuts out the bedroom light," "Man, the poets down here don't write nothin' at all / They just stand back and let it all be." Springsteen changed several lines that had been part of the song since early 1974, in the final month at the Record Plant, including, "there's a crazy kind of light tonight, brighter than the one that sparkles for prophets", which he changed in July 1975 to, "The midnight gang's assembled and picked

1539-404: The guitars, I think I just wanted the thing more grittier, and the strings kinda took away some of the darkness.'" In Born to Run , his 2016 autobiography, Springsteen describes "the album's climactic piece, the 9:23 epic "Jungleland." Here a violin prelude gives way to piano and the elegiac tale of the renegade Magic Rat and the barefoot girl. He writes, "From there it's all night, the city and

1596-423: The lead guitar track, different vocals, and Clarence Clemons ' sax solo were overdubbed. "All we could do was hold on. Smoke a lot of pot and try to stay calm," said Clemons, who spent sixteen hours playing and replaying every note of his "Jungleland" solo "in order to satisfy Bruce's bat-eared attention to sonic detail. It was time for big decisions. Like, what to do about the strings. He wisely decided, 'Once we got

1653-401: The lyrics imagined by Shuya, drawing parallels between the song and the events of the novel. The B-side was simply another cut from the album; Springsteen would not begin releasing unused tracks as B-sides until 1980. According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon: Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Q (magazine) Q was

1710-457: The new album. When Springsteen did a show at the Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on February 5, 1975, with Sciaky as host, the crowd sang along to "Born to Run". No music video was made for the original release of "Born to Run". In 1987, a video was released to MTV and other channels, featuring a live performance of "Born to Run" from Springsteen and the E Street Band's 1984–1985 Born in

1767-417: The now-closed Kerrang! 105.2 after moving from London in 2009. The station was closed in mid-2013 after owners Bauer Media decided to use the station's bandwidth on various platforms (DAB, Digital TV) to launch Kisstory , a spinoff of their Kiss brand. There was a Q TV television channel in the UK, which launched on 2 October 2000 and closed on 3 July 2012. Q held a yearly awards ceremony called

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1824-609: The publication of a number of monthly music magazine titles, a buyer could not be found for the title, with editor Ted Kessler announcing that issue Q415 would be the last, on 20 July 2020. In the early days of publication, the magazine's format was much closer in tone to that of Rolling Stone (though with some of the characteristic humour of former Smash Hits staff shining through), with Tom Hibbert 's "Who The Hell..." feature (including interviews with people like Jeffrey Archer , Robert Maxwell , Ronnie Biggs and Bernard Manning ) and film reviews. After EMAP started to publish

1881-441: The same genre of music; Select was shut in late 2000, with Q continuing. In January 2008, Mojo was launched by EMAP as a rival to Uncut and focused on all the rock stars, now viewed upon as being heritage and classic, that Q originally featured in its pages in 1986. In late 2008, Q revamped its image with a smaller amount of text and an increased focus on subjects other than music. In February 2012, Andrew Harrison

1938-513: The song was made by Allan Clarke of the British group the Hollies , although its release was delayed, only appearing after Springsteen's own now-famous version. In recording the song Springsteen first earned his noted reputation for perfectionism, laying down as many as eleven guitar tracks to get the sound just right. The recording process and alternate ideas for the song's arrangement are described in

1995-472: The song, among a nearly all-Springsteen theatrical soundtrack, in his 1980s Steppenwolf Theater production of Lanford Wilson 's play, Balm in Gilead . It served as the background for a choreographed tableau of street denizens miming a tragic slice-of-life. The American educational children's program Sesame Street featured a parody of Springsteen about addition called "Born to Add", which though ostensibly

2052-405: The song. The song is referenced frequently in the 1999 Koushun Takami novel Battle Royale as the main character Shuya Nanahara's favorite example of the (in the novel's setting) banned genre of rock music. A scene where the song is sung by him serves as a important bonding event for the main characters, and the very last lines of the book are a pastiched , personalised version of a section of

2109-519: The spiritual battleground of "Jungleland" as the band works its way through musical movement after musical movement. Then, Clarence's greatest recorded moment. That solo. One last musical ebb, and . . . "The poets down here don’t write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be . . . ," the knife-in-the-back wail of my vocal outro, the last sound you hear, finishes it all in bloody operatic glory. At record's end, our lovers from "Thunder Road" have had their early hard-won optimism severely tested by

2166-407: The streets of my noir city". Devoted Springsteen fan Melissa Etheridge praised the song to RollingStone.com, saying, "When Bruce Springsteen does those wordless wails, like at the end of 'Jungleland,' that's the definition of rock and roll to me. He uses his whole body when he sings, and he puts out this enormous amount of force and emotion and passion." The song in its lyrics mirrors the pattern of

2223-404: The time of the single release, Billboard described "Born to Run" as "one of the best rock anthems to individual freedom ever created," describing it as "a monster song with a piledriver arrangement" that could become Springsteen's biggest hit yet. Cash Box said that "Springsteen sounds like a cross between Roger McGuinn (from his Byrds days) and nobody else we've ever heard." In 1980

2280-560: The time the house lights are turned fully on and fans consistently sing along with Springsteen's signature wordless vocalizations throughout the song's performance. The song has also been released in live versions on seven albums or DVDs: "Born to Run" was also performed as the second number of four during Springsteen and the E Street Band's halftime performance at Super Bowl XLIII . On Jon Stewart 's last episode as host of The Daily Show on August 6, 2015, Springsteen performed " Land of Hope and Dreams " and "Born to Run". "Born to Run"

2337-531: The title track of his third studio album, Born to Run (1975). It was Springsteen's first worldwide single release, although it achieved little initial success outside of the United States. Within the U.S., however, it received extensive airplay on progressive or album-oriented rock radio stations. The single was also Springsteen's first Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , peaking at #23. "Born to Run"

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2394-401: The tour ended. It also appeared intermittently during the 2009 Working on a Dream Tour . Its performances in 2009 became substantially more frequent later in the tour as the band began to play Born to Run in its entirety at most shows. Following the death of Clemons in 2011, the song was not played for a majority of the 2012 Wrecking Ball Tour . The song finally made its tour debut just before

2451-488: Was about and lots more". In late 1973, on the road in Tennessee, Springsteen awoke with the title "Born to Run", which he wrote down. According to Springsteen, this was the first spark of the later song. Written in the first person , the song is a love letter to a girl named Wendy, for whom the hot rod -riding protagonist seems to possess the passion to love, just not the patience. However, Springsteen has noted that it has

2508-437: Was becoming more serious after Melody Maker closed down and so writers like Maconie felt more at home at a publication that would still run tongue-in-cheek articles such as "40 Celebs About Whom We Only Know One Thing" and "Do I Have To Wear This, Boss?" (Du Noyer's feature about every band having a member who looks out of place in the line-up). In 2006, Q published a readers' survey, "The 100 Greatest Songs Ever", which

2565-830: Was given by Appel to disc jockey Ed Sciaky of WMMR in Philadelphia , and played with Springsteen as his special guest on November 3, 1974, and within a couple of weeks this version was given to other progressive rock radio outlets in the Northeast as well, including WNEW-FM in New York City, WMMS in Cleveland , WBCN in Boston , and WVBR in Ithaca, New York . It became quite popular on these stations, and led to older cuts from Springsteen's first two albums being played, as anticipation built for

2622-524: Was met with critical acclaim and is considered Springsteen's signature song . It was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stone ' s 2021 list of the " 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ", the highest placement for a song by Springsteen. It was also included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll . Upon release, music critic Robert Christgau took note of its wall of sound influence and called it "the fulfillment of everything ' Be My Baby '

2679-403: Was mixed, along with numerous test arrangements, backing vocals, double-tracked vocals and strings, and finally the one chosen for release. Springsteen and Mike Appel were the producers, and Louis Lahav was chief engineer. After finally going in the can, the tapes sat for a year, waiting for the rest of the album to be completed. A pre-release version of the song, with a slightly different mix,

2736-465: Was originally published by the EMAP media group and set itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and printing. In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled "The modern guide to music and more". Originally it was to be called Cue (as in the sense of cueing a record, ready to play), but the name was changed so that it would not be mistaken for

2793-469: Was originally set up after the success of "rock’s old stagers" at Live Aid , which co-founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth had co-presented, to focus on long-established acts that appealed to an older music market, such as Paul McCartney , Rod Stewart , Paul Simon , Elton John , Genesis and Eric Clapton . It also compiled lists, ranging from "The 100 Greatest Albums" to "The 100 Richest Stars in Rock", with

2850-590: Was part of a revolving "epic" slot, alternating with " Backstreets " and " Racing in the Street ". When played, it is sometimes preceded by its Born to Run predecessor, " Meeting Across the River ". Its appearances were rarer during The Rising Tour . During the 2007–2008 Magic Tour , "Jungleland" was played periodically, often played every third or fourth show in a slot where it alternated with "Backstreets", "Rosalita", "Kitty's Back", or "Detroit Medley" and gaining in frequency as

2907-428: Was recorded in the key of E major. Some of the lead guitar parts were inspired by Duane Eddy 's lead guitar style. In the period prior to the release of Born to Run Springsteen was becoming well-known (especially in his native northeast) for his live shows. "Born to Run" joined his concert repertoire well before the release of the album, being performed in concert by May 1974, if not earlier. The first recording of

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2964-420: Was recorded on May 21, 1974, after rehearsal sessions. Vocals were recorded on June 26, 1974. Recording was not completed until August 6, 1974, when mixing began on seventy-two tracks to the sixteen available at 914 Studios, including strings, more than one dozen guitar tracks, sax, drums, glockenspiel, bass, multiple keyboards and a variety of voices. The core instrumental backing track, which had been re-recorded,

3021-415: Was recruited as editor, replacing Paul Rees during a difficult period when on-line publishing had led to a 17% decline in the magazine's circulation in the first half of 2012. It had fallen to 64,596 units; a reduction in volume described by The Guardian as "the worst performance of any music magazine in the period". Direct reporting to Publishing Director Rimi Atwal of Bauer Media Group , Harrison's brief

3078-673: Was soft launched as an online publication in November 2023, posting new content along with articles from their archive. It was officially relaunched in January 2024, with a new editorial team spearheaded by Los Angeles-based US Editor Andrew Barker and Oxford-based UK and Europe Editor, Dominic Utton. In May 2024 the magazine ceased operations. Six full-time journalists were laid off. The magazine had an extensive review section, featuring: new releases , reissues , compilations, film and live concert reviews, as well as radio and television reviews. It used

3135-580: Was the goal song of choice for the United States men's national ice hockey team at the 2023 IIHF World Championship in Tampere , Finland and Riga , Latvia . In 2005, the song appeared in the original television broadcast of Bad Girls . The song was played during the memorial service for character Yvonne Atkins , earlier in the series Yvonne had stated she was a fan of Bruce Springsteen. Due to copyright reasons, future broadcasts and home media have removed

3192-663: Was to "refocus" and revive the magazine, and to that end he took on a number of new journalists and launched their iPad edition, but decided against a rebranding. Under his tenure, Q was named "Magazine of the Year" at the 2012 "Record of the Day" awards. He left just 14 months later, according to the Guardian , "as print music magazines continue to endure torrid times" and even free titles were failing to compete against blogs and platforms dependent on online advertising . In July 2020, Bauer published

3249-520: Was topped by Oasis ' " Live Forever ". In the April 2007 issue, Q published an article listing "The 100 Greatest Singers", which was topped by Elvis Presley . Lady Gaga posed topless in a shoot for the April 2010 issue of the magazine, which was banned by stores in the United States due to the singer revealing too much of her breasts. After a few years as a radio jukebox , Q Radio launched in June 2008 as

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