Bruce Springsteen Joseph Springsteen was born on September 23, 1949, at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, New Jersey. He was brought home from the hospital to Freehold Borough where he spent his childhood. He lived on South Street and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen (1924-1998), was of Dutch and Irish ancestry, and worked as a bus driver, among other jobs, but was unemployed most of the time. Springsteen said his mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), a legal secretary and of Italian ancestry, was the main breadwinner. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a town
Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song) Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song) "Dancing in the Dark" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. Adding uptempo synthesizer riffs to his sound for the first time, the song spent four weeks at number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and sold over one million singles in the U.S. It was the first single released from his 1984 album "Born in the U.S.A."; it became his biggest hit and helped to propel the album to become the best-selling album of his career. The song is written in the key of B major with