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21 October 2025

THE BOSS earned his first Top-5 hit in the US with HUNGRY HEART.
The single was released this day 45 years ago, on 21 October 1980.

The song was part of his fifth album The River.

One day Springsteen met Joey Ramone in Asbury Park, New Jersey, who asked
him to write a song for the Ramones. He then composed ‘Hungry Heart‘, but
decided to keep it for himself on the advice of his producer and manager,
Jon Landau.

Previously, upbeat and catchy Springsteen songs such as ‘Blinded by the Light’,
‘Because the Night’, and ‘Fire‘ had been given away and become hits for others,
and Landau preferred the trend not continue.

Too bad, I really would have known what
the Ramones would have done with
the song.

The title is drawn from a line in Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
famous poem Ulysses: “For always roaming with a hungry heart”.

“Everybody’s got a hungry heart
Lay down your money and you play your part
Everybody’s got a h-h-hungry heart”

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