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| Released | January 5, 1973 | |||
| Recorded | June 7 – October 26, 1972[1] | |||
| Studio | 914 Sound in Blauvelt, New York | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 37:08 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Mike Appel · Jim Cretecos | |||
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Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. is the debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen. It was produced from June through October 1972 by Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos at the budget-priced 914 Sound Studios. The album was released January 5, 1973, by Columbia Records to average sales but a positive critical reception.
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. first charted in the United Kingdom on June 15, 1985, in the wake of Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. tour arriving in Britain; it remained in the top 100 for ten weeks.[2] In 2003, the album was ranked at No. 379 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list[3] and in 2013 the same magazine listed Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. as one of the "100 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time".[4] On November 22, 2009, the album was played in its entirety for the first time by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York, to celebrate the last show of the Working on a Dream tour.[5]
- ^ Heylin, Clinton (2012). Springsteen Song by Song A Critical Look. New York: Penguin Group (USA) Inc. pp. 8–13. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums, 1996
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Goldstein, Stan (November 15, 2009). "Bruce Springsteen to play the entire 'Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.' album in Buffalo". nj.com. Retrieved 16 November 2009.