"E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band" by Clinton Heylin

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      Before he was a stadium-packing megastar, Bruce Springsteen was an introvert, desperate to strike a balance between his nuanced songwriting and the heft of his backing band. Clinton Heylin’s revelatory biography, E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, chronicles the evolution and influence of Springsteen’s E Street Band as they rose from blue-collar New Jersey to the heights of rock stardom.

Clinton Heylin is the author of Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades and several other books about popular music and entertainment.