Working on a Dream by Bruce Springsteen

Working on a Dream, Bruce Springsteen's sixteenth studio album, came out on Columbia as the closing chapter of what E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt called a trilogy, begun with The Rising and carried on through Magic, all three produced by Brendan O'Brien. O'Brien gives this one a big, glossy, wide-open sound, and the Boss sounds like a man in a hurry to get the next batch of songs out of his head.

The title track is pure uplift, hopeful and striding. The album topped the charts in nine countries, America among them, where it was his ninth number one, and "The Wrestler", tucked on as a bonus track, won a Golden Globe.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.