TIME Magazine, October 27, 1975

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	With The Rising, Bruce Springsteen delivers his first studio album backed by the E Street Band in 15 years. In 1975, with the release of Born to Run, a cover story hailed the KID FROM NEW JERSEY.

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The money is starting to flow in now: Springsteen takes home $350 a week ... [He] lives sometimes with his girlfriend Karen Darvin, 20, a freckled, leggy model from Texas, in a small apartment on Manhattan's East Side. More frequently, he is down on the Jersey shore, where he has just moved into more comfortable—but not lavish—quarters, and bought his first decent hi-fi rig. He remains adamantly indifferent to clothing and personal adornment, although he wears a small gold cross around his neck—a vestigial remnant of Catholicism—and, probably to challenge it, a small gold ring in his left ear, which gives him a little gypsy flash. When he is not working, Springsteen takes life easy and does not worry about it. "I'm not a planning-type guy," he says. "You can't count on nothing in this life. I never have expectations when I get involved in things. That way, I never have disappointments."

—TIME, Oct. 27, 1975

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