“She's the One” by Bruce Springsteen

"She's the One" sits on Bruce Springsteen's 1975 album Born to Run, and it was written before the sessions began, alongside "Born to Run", "Thunder Road" and "Jungleland", though he went back and forth on whether it belonged on the record. Several versions were cut between April and June 1975, and the June take from 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York, is the one that made it.

It's a rock and roll classic in the old mold: a gorgeous, cold-hearted woman who tears her lover apart, and a narrator who knows she's lying and wants to believe her anyway, all of it told in flashback and soaked in hot summer nights. Roy Bittan's piano, organ and harpsichord shimmer, Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent pound out a relentless beat, and Clarence Clemons' sax blows the doors off. It also backed the "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" single and has long been a fixture of E Street Band shows.

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