Local News Coverage of Bruce Springsteen in 1978

See how local news stations covered a young Bruce Springsteen after the release of “Darkness on the Edge of Town.”

Many of us are so used to Bruce Springsteen being a rock icon that it can be easy to forget a time before Springsteen and the E Street Band attained legendary status. Therefore it is interesting to look back at local news coverage of the band early in Springsteen’s career.

The following video features a couple of local television news interviews with the young Bruce Springsteen starting off his Darkness on the Edge of Town tour. The interviews feature some cool concert footage too, as “the kid from Asbury Park” talks about “the most important” night of his life. Check it out.

Backstreets Presents: The Darkness Television Interviews from Backstreets on Vimeo.

The video was put together by the people at Backstreets. Leave your two cents in the comments.

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