The Springsteen Archives is celebrating BORN TO RUN @50, and you're invited to the birthday party!
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- Jul 10
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July 10, 2025
The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music has announced the ticket-sales date for this September’s multi-day Archives celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Springsteen’s landmark album Born to Run. Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, July 16, beginning at 12pm ET. On that date and at that time, you'll be able to click here to purchase tickets to any or all of the ticketed events listed below.
Tickets for the main event, a full-day symposium that will take place on Saturday, September 6 in Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre, will cost $150. The symposium will feature panels, presentations, and interviews with members of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, as well as with journalists and historians, music industry legends, and special guests.
“Born to Run is one of rock’s great masterpieces,” said Robert Santelli, the Archives/Center's Executive Director. “Just a few blocks from where the symposium will take place is where Springsteen wrote the album. To revisit the making of the album and to examine Born to Run’s place in American music history is a great honor, and a quintessential example of the way The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music works to deliver unique insights about, and preserve the legacy of, our cherished American music genres and artists.”
The Archives' Born to Run celebrations also will include:
A special presentation of Tuesday Night Record Club on Tuesday, September 2 at Monmouth University’s Great Hall Auditorium and online via Zoom. As the Archives' official press release states, "it’s just like book club, but with albums! Get together with other music enthusiasts to discuss Born to Run." This event will be free and open to the public, but in order to attend - either in person or online - you must register in advance by clicking here.
A special viewing of rare footage from the making of Born to Run and from Springsteen’s 1975 Born to Run tour, hosted by filmmaker Thom Zimny. This screening will take place on Friday, September 5, at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre. Tickets for this event will cost $50.
A new exhibit celebrating the photography of Eric Meola, whose iconic photo of Springsteen and saxophonist Clarence Clemons graces the Born to Run album cover. The free exhibit will be open to the public in Monmouth University’s Rechnitz Hall DiMattio Gallery from Saturday, September 6 through Thursday, December 18, 2025.
An academic conference on Sunday, September 7 in Monmouth University’s Pozycki Hall, featuring close to 100 interdisciplinary papers from scholars across the globe. The conference will end with a special live performance of select songs from Springsteen’s iconic Born to Run, reimagined by the students of Blue Hawk Records, Monmouth University’s own student-run label. Their Born to Run Reimagined EP will be released on Friday, September 5. Tickets for this daylong event, co-sponsored by the Monmouth University Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, will cost $100.
Walking tours of the West End section of Long Branch, where Springsteen lived in 1974 and 1975 when he wrote the songs that comprise Born to Run. The September 7 tours, which include the chance to view Springsteen’s rented West End cottage, will take place at 11am and 2pm. Tickets will cost $40.
