The Legends Of Music on Instagram: "Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band performing “Badlands” Live in September of 1979 at Madison Square Garden The riff of this song was inspired by The Animals “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” who were a huge influence on Bruce Springsteen. Bruce also revealed that he came up with the title “Badlands” before he started writing the song and he took a lot of inspiration form the punk singles he was listening at that point in time. The storyline of this song has