BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN—EST. $500 MILLION

Bruce Springsteen was born on September 23, 1949 in Longco, New Jersey. His first album, released in 1972, has won a lot of praise, but its sales are not satisfactory. The same was true for his second album, but Bruce didn’t give up and spent six months making his third album, “born to run,” and it was a huge success.

“Down in the shadow of the penitentiary, out by the gas fires of the refinery.” Springsteen’s songs are indeed, deeply poetic. Legend has it that Bruce Springsteen, as a young kid, found himself immediately mesmerized by Elvis’s hip-rocking performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, that he became transfixed about becoming a rock star himself. Elvis set him on the path to rock and roll royalty, and the man went on to become one of the biggest musical acts in history, changing the landscape of the industry along the way as both a commercial and cultural phenomenon.