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In his new book, Tonight in Jungleland , Peter Ames Carlin says that Bruce Springsteen chose to have Clarence Clemons on the cover of Born to Run with him in part to stand against racism

Carlin spoke to former E Street band member David Sancious, who remembered Springsteen and Clemons standing up to racists on the Jersey Shore

Springsteen and Clemons remained good friends and collaborators until Clemons’ death in 2011

The cover of Bruce Springsteen ’s Born to Run is just as iconic as the songs it contains, and a new book is shedding insight into how it came together.

Peter Ames Carlin writes in his book Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run that Springsteen, now 75, decided to have his bandmate, legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons, pose with him

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