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Recording sessions for Bruce's second album began at the 914 Sound Studios in mid-May. Given how crucial touring was to the group's week-to-week income, the sessions were squeezed into dayslong increments through late September.
It had taken four months, six separate rounds of recording, to get to this point, and still in the second week of September Springsteen's second album was only half ready.