Blender magazine has a great article online on the 100 days that changed music. I won't spoil the top spot for you but our Springsteen comes in at #38 just for being discovered.
38. May 9, 1974
Springsteen Discovered
Opening for Bonnie Raitt at a show in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 25–year–old Bruce Springsteen was bursting with new material and severely in need of some kind of big break. He got it when Jon Landau, reviewing the show for The Real Paper, wrote passionately (and ungrammatically): “I saw rock & roll’s future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” His next album, Born to Run, got him onto the covers of both Time and Newsweek, and the Boss never had to open for anyone else again.
Unintended consequence: “They’re not booing, they’re yelling Bruuuuuce”
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