Writer Warren Zanes talks book, new Springsteen film

The record dropped the same week that Pope John Paul II and Palestine leader Yasser Arafat came together for their historic meeting, and when the first of seven victims died in what would become known as the Tylenol murders.

For Bruce Springsteen, it was a time when his global popularity enjoyed a steady upward trajectory. “Ascending,” says . “Born to Run” and “The River” were in the rearview, and “Born in the U.S.A.” was just a bit further on up the road.