Born to Run

It's Arthur Aidala and Alex Garrett.

We're listening to Born to Run because all these people are running.

We're going to have some Halloween fun on the other side.

The following is a paid political announcement.

So what's top of the shop at the moment out of everything you've listened to so far, what's currently sitting right at the very top of the leaderboard? What's the absolute pinnacle?

There are three albums tied for first, Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen, even in the quietest moments, Supertramp.

But the one that I'm going to pick because it's your hometown is The Who's Live at Leeds.

The story behind that one is I bought that when I was a teen and I brought it home.

The show was at the legendary Whiskey A Go-Go on Sunset Boulevard.

And just about every famous up-and-coming rock group and singer has played there at some point in time over the courses of their career, including Bruce Springsteen on the Born to Run tour, played some legendary shows at the Whiskey.

So Max has a, as he explained when he was on the show, a jukebox band where on any given night they have a screen with about 300 classic rock songs scrolling on the screen and people shout out the name of the song they want to hear and they just play it.

And one of the members of Max's jukebox band played for five years with Styx.

You saw it happen to Springsteen.

on Born to Run.

Springsteen never cared about girls and cars.

Okay? But people said he writes songs about girls and cars.

In 1975, in an historic media breakthrough, Bruce Springsteen appeared on the front covers of both Time magazine and Newsweek magazine in the exact same week.

This unprecedented level of mainstream publicity followed the release of his breakthrough third album, Born to Run.

In 1980, Mark David Chapman legally purchased the five-shot .38 caliber special revolver in Honolulu, Hawaii for $169.

A little over six weeks later, he would use that exact firearm in order to assassinate John Lennon outside his New York City apartment building.