Pink Cadillac (song) "Nebraska" album, "Pink Cadillac" was not formally recorded by Springsteen until the sessions for his "Born in the U.S.A." album, in the spring of 1983. At the end of one session, when most of the crew had left the studio, Springsteen impulsively cut a basic track of him singing "Pink Cadillac" to his guitar accompaniment; this track was completed with the E Street Band the following morning. Although not included on the completed "Born in the U.S.A" album, being bumped from the track list that April in favor of "I'm Goin' Down", "Pink Cadillac" was released in 1984 as the
The River (Bruce Springsteen album) mix of the frivolous next to the solemn. This was intentional, and in contrast to "Darkness", for as Springsteen said during an interview, "Rock and roll has always been this joy, this certain happiness that is in its way the most beautiful thing in life. But rock is also about hardness and coldness and being alone ... I finally got to the place where I realized life had paradoxes, a lot of them, and you've got to live with them." On November 8, 2009, at a concert, Bruce Springsteen spoke about the album, saying: ""The River" was a record that