This was the Bruce Springsteen album that made him a mega-star.  "Born to Run" and the two that followed it, "Darkness on the Edge of Town," and "The River" turned a small cult into a huge cult, but this is the album that made Bruce a household name. With "Nebraska," Bruce made a definitive turn in his career into becoming a different sort of artist. The cult largely followed him into this obsessive private little world of murder and desperation, in which the joy of "Rosalita" or "Out in the Street" seemed remote and unreachable. But Bruce knew the fans yearned for him to rock again with his great band.  "Born in the U.S.A." was the result.