It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen on his debut album "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J." in 1973. It is about a young man growing up on the streets of a city, and who is trying to stay good and do what he believes is right. Unfortunately, he is inexorably dragged into some very unsaintly activities. A 1975 live version can be found on the DVD of the Hammersmith Odeon concert that is included in the "Born to Run" (30th
Martin Asbury Martin Asbury Martin Asbury is a British comic and storyboard artist, best known for drawing the "Garth" strip in the "Daily Mirror" from 1976 to 1997, and for his colour TV adaptations in "Look-in". Asbury was educated at Merchant Taylors School and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, and started work in strip cartoons, including assisting Dan Barry on "Flash Gordon" in Austria. After a period designing greetings cards, he got work at D. C. Thomson, drawing "Secret of the Sheridan Sisters" for "Bunty" and "Soldiers of the Jet Age" and "The Crimson Claw" for "Hotspur", before moving to