cassette

So for many people, it might be the first time that they’re learning that the “Nebraska” album derived from a Maxell XL II 90 cassette tape of demos recorded by Springsteen in his bedroom.

"Some of these cassettes are too old and can get damaged. I want to bring them back to public memory," he says.

And so he famously handed his record label a simple homemade cassette tape and a request to release it as an album.

He laid down a number of songs in his bedroom on a four-track cassette recorder and then sent a tape to his manager, Jon Landau, expecting to cut them at a future studio date.

She said she tried to "hang on" to Karen as she got on a bus after an argument over Karen stealing a cassette recorder in 1981, but she failed to stop her.