This book provides intimate look at one of rock's brightest stars and his legendary backing band by the Uk's premier rock journalist.  Before he was the swaggering, stadium-packing megastar, Bruce Springsteen was a brooding introvert, desperate to strike a balance between his nuanced songwriting and the heft of his backing band.  Clinton Heylin's revelatory biographychronicles the evolution and influence of Springsteen's E Street Band as they rose from blue-collar New Jersey to the heights of rock stardom.