BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "LIVE/1975-85" 1986 5-LP box set w/booklet VG/M

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND "LIVE/1975-85" 1986 original U.S.Columbia 5-LP box set C5X 40558 w/32 page booklet & custom color inner sleeves depicting "The Boss" in action. 40 career spanning songs including "Born To Run" & "Born In The U.S.A.". VG/M.

Long before he sold substantial numbers of records, Bruce Springsteen began to earn a reputation as the best live act in rock & roll. Fans had been clamoring for a live album for a long time, and with Live 1975-85 they got what they wanted with this 5 LP box set. His concerts were marathons, and this box set, including 40 tracks and running over three and a half hours, was about the average length of a show. In his brief liner notes, Springsteen spoke of the emergence of the album's "story" as he reviewed live tapes, and that story seems nothing less than a history of his life, his concerns, and his career. The first cuts present the Springsteen of the early to mid-'70s; these performances, most of them drawn from a July 1978 show at the Roxy in Los Angeles, give us the romantic, hopeful, earnest Springsteen of "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and "Thunder Road." The second section begins with his first Top Ten hit, "Hungry Heart" -- this is the Springsteen of the late '70s and early '80s, an arena rock star with working-class concerns. After an acoustic mini-set given largely to material from Nebraska -- songs of economic desperation and crime -- comes a reshuffling of Born in the U.S.A., songs in which Springsteen and his characters start to fight back and rock out. Finally, he brings it all back home to New Jersey, starting with the unofficial state anthem, "Born to Run," and including "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Jersey Girl." Fans could rejoice that it found room for seven previously unreleased songs including "Because the Night," which he had given to Patti Smith. This box set has amazing sound quality & is a great overview documenting Springsteen’s rise to fame. Complete with the 32 page booklet with notes, lyrics & lots of color & black & white photos.
 
40 tracks- Thunder Road, Adam Raised A Cain, Spirit In The Night, 4th Of July Asbury Park (Sandy), Paradise By The “C”, Fire, Growin’ Up, It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City, Backstreets, Rosalina (Come Out Tonight), Raise Your Hand, Hungry Heart, Two Hearts, Cadillac Ranch, You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch), Independence Day, Badlands, Because The Night, Candy’s Room, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Racing In The Street, This Land Is Your Land, Nebraska, Johnny 99, Reason To Believe, Born In The U.S.A., Seeds, The River, War, Darlington County, Working On The Highway, The Promised Land, Cover Me, I’m On Fire, Bobby Jean, My Hometown, Born To Run, No Surrender, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out & Jersey Girl.

Outer cardboard box is intact with no split seams but with wear on the left edge & corners.Still very presentable- graded Very Good. Booklet & inner sleeves look great- graded near MINT. Records have no scratches or scuffs & have received very little, if any, play. They are rated MINT. Red & orange Columbia labels have no spindle marks & indicate that this is an  original U.S. pressing from 1986.

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