About 15 color photos of Bruce playing. This book contains the guitar music and lyrics for the 76 songs in Bruce's first seven albums plus 17 more songs written by Bruce including: Be True, Because the Night, The Fever, Fire, From Small Things, Held Up Without a Gun, Jeannie Needs a Shooter, Johnny Bye Bye, Out of Work, Pink Cadillac, Protection, Rendezvous, Savin' Up, Shut Out the Light, Stand on It,and This Little Girl. The book is arranged alphabetically by song title. In the back of this book is an index of first lines of the songs.

ISBN: 0-89898-469-6 (paperback) [ Check our list of links to buy.]

Songs (1998, NY: Avon Books, 306pp.)

About 100 color (about half color and a little more than half black and white) photos and contact prints include Bruce's father, Douglas Springsteen, early and later E Street Band members and their hangouts, Bruce with John Hammond, with Mike Appel, with Dave Sancious, at Madam Marie's, playing pinball and pool, with Plotkin, Landau and Iovine, with cars, with kid, with dog, with road buddy Matt DiLea on Route 66, with his Tom Joad tour director, wearing shorts, his boots, on Amtrack, in the recording studio and in nearly every other kind of setting you could imagine. This book contains printed lyrics and some examples of handwritten lyrics for all the songs in the first twelve albums from Greetings through The Ghost of Tom Joad. Songs are listed by album. The section for each album begins with a few pages of introductory notes about where Bruce was at (physically and mentally) when the album was created and gives background information on some of the songs. In the back of this book are: index of song titles and index of first lines.

ISBN: 0-380-97619-6 (hardback) [ Click here to buy this book.]