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What Bruce Springsteen Can Teach You About the Make-or-Break Bet

By 1974, Bruce Springsteen had shipped two albums that critics genuinely loved and the record-buying public genuinely ignored. Columbia had already funded two commercial disappointments and, reasonably enough, wasn't lining up to fund a third.

What Bruce Springsteen Can Teach You About the Make-or-Break Bet

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By 1974, Bruce Springsteen had shipped two albums that critics genuinely loved and the record-buying public genuinely ignored.

Columbia had already funded two commercial disappointments and, reasonably enough, wasn't lining up to fund a third.

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By 1974, Bruce Springsteen had shipped two albums that critics genuinely loved and the record-buying public genuinely ignored. Columbia had already funded two commercial disappointments and, reasonably enough, wasn't lining up to fund a third.

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