On this day: May 9, 1974

Bruce Springsteen was off to a rough start at the beginning of his career, with his first two albums, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle not even charting, things were looking pretty bleak for the rocker. That is until May 9, 1974 when he was scheduled to play a show at Harvard Square Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The headliner that night was not Springsteen, but Bonnie Raitt, who agreed to let Springsteen play his full two hour set anyway, it was a massive success. In attendance that night was a music critic Jon Landau who was famously misquoted as saying, 'I saw rock and roll's future and its name is Bruce Springstee' of the show.

Landau worked with Springsteen on his new project, what would eventually become Born to Run, and would be the breakthrough record for Springsteen eventually charting at number 3.

Other notable events for May 9:
-The Beatles signed their recording contract with EMI records on May 9, 1962
-Mick Jagger made a donation of $350,000 on May 9, 1973 to the appeal for victims of the earthquake in Nicaragua, adding his own money to the $200,000 raised by a benefit concert at Los Angeles Forum by the Rolling Stones