OK, I hesitate to include it, but I have to be honest: If we’re talking about something that changed my life, this one truly did.It’s a great record, though. I’ll never forget, when we were making the movie, we didn’t have the actual songs – they were still being recorded – so we would do the dance numbers to songs of similar tempos.

“I moved to New York in ’76, and that time was a new chapter for me. I was starting a new career, running around and working in the bars. I liked disco music – I could do roller disco, and I went to Studio 54 and all that stuff – but there were no disco records that I was really into, not like full albums that I wanted to listen to. It was stuff that you used to party to.“Parallel Lines was disco, but it was also punk-rock and edgy, and it felt like the New York streets. It reminds me so much of that time in my life. And Debbie Harry was just so sexy.”

I hadn’t yet left for New York. At this time, with the first two Bruce records, he was big in Jersey and Philly, so we kind of thought of him as ours in a way. When Born To Run came out, it was like, ‘Oh, sure, now everybody likes him.

This was the time when I was discovering drugs, and to me, this is a very druggy record – not that it was Stevie’s intention, but that’s just where it landed in my life. I’m lucky enough to have gotten past that – so many people that I know didn’t – but it’s certainly something that I and a lot of people went through in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. That’s what this album feels like to me.