Two Sides Of Gloria Estefan
"If they play your songs on the radio," explains Gloria Estefan, "and people go out and buy them, then you're going to do well." This, she knows, takes work. "I remember in Puerto Rico, where there's...
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Hungry Heart
  By the end of the 1970s, Americans were suffering through double-digit inflation and high unemployment. Now entering his 30s, Bruce Springsteen stepped away from his heroic tales of youth, independence and New Jersey and, using a new, streamlined writing style, he began exploring themes of disconnection, roots and simple dignity. "Hungry Heart" mirrored the sentiments of a dispirited nation, and its success broke Springsteen into the pop mainstream. Joey Ramone had asked Bruce to pen a song for the Ramones: said Bruce, "I went home that night and wrote this. I played it for Jon Landau and, earning his money, he advised me to keep it."

(B. Springsteen); Produced by Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Plotkin, Jon Landau and Steve Van Zandt; Bruce Springsteen, electric 6- and 12-string guitars, harmonica, lead vocal; Steve Van Zandt, acoustic and electric guitars; Clarence Clemons, saxophone, percussion, background vocals; Danny Federici, organ; Roy Bittan, piano; Garry Tallent, bass; Max Weinberg, drums; Rec. New York, 1979. Columbia 11-11391 (ZSS 167548); P 1980 Bruce Springsteen