You might have heard Suzi Quatro’s cover of “Born to Run” before.
But if Youtube’s stats are to be trusted, you might not have heard this version before.
Suzi’s four-minute version from her 1999 Greatest Hits album is one of the more well-known Springsteen covers out there, and it’s a mighty fine rendition.
But this expanded five-minute version from her 1995 What Goes Around album is so much better. Quatro is all in on Bruce’s signature song, singing with 110% commitment in an arrangement in a way that honors both its Spectorian influence and E Street origin and yet still makes it her own.
Quatro even nails a spoken-word bridge, which could have come off as just plain cheesy if her conviction wavered for even an instant.
This is a seriously well done cover.
