Bruce Springsteen Shares ‘Born To Run’ Outtake “Lonely Night In The Park” To Celebrate Album’s 50th Anniversary

To mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Born to Run on Monday (August 25), Bruce Springsteen has just shared the previously unreleased outtake from the album’s recording sessions, “Lonely Night in the Park.” The song was recorded at New York’s Record Plant over the course of two days in May 1975, and it nearly was included on the album, but was ultimately shelved over the insistence of former Springsteen manager/Born to Run co-producer Mike Appel, who memorably told Bruce “this stuff was sh*t.” The track, enhanced with recent overdubs while preserving Springsteen’s original vocals, had only circulated in bootleg form and was played once on SiriusXM’s E Street Radio in 2005 to mark the album’s 30th anniversary. Born to Run celebrations this year include a symposium at Monmouth University on September 6 featuring E Street Band members and music historians, a special Max Weinberg’s Jukebox concert at the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park, and the release of Peter Ames Carlin’s new book, Tonight in Jungleland, which chronicles the making of the iconic album. (Rolling Stone)