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<ul><li>This is an intense story about a broken relationship; a tale of losing a lover where the narrator seems more concerned about losing her as a friend. T</li><li>he girl in the song, Terry, is a character Springsteen created based on girls he knew.</li><li>This is one of several Springsteen songs featuring the first name of a girl who is not a specific real person. </li><li>Besides Terry, Springsteen has also sung about Mary, Wendy, Sandy and Rosie.</li><li><br></li><li>Asked where this song came from in a 2016 interview with&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone</em>, Springsteen replied: </li><li>"Just youth, the beach, the night, friendships, the feeling of being an outcast and kind of living far away from things in this little outpost in New Jersey. </li><li>It's also about a place of personal refuge. </li><li>It wasn't a specific relationship or anything that brought the song into being."</li><li><br></li><li>This goes over very well when Springsteen plays it live. </li><li>The version on the boxed set&nbsp;<strong>Live 1975-1985</strong>&nbsp;was taken from a show at The Roxy in 1978.</li><li><br></li><li>A string section was brought in to play on the track, but the strings did not make the final mix.</li><li>This is one of E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg's favorite Bruce Springsteen songs. </li><li>He explained: "I guess what hit me most about it was the emotionalism of the lyrics. </li><li>I felt particularly proud to play on that record, because it was a kind of an involved drum part, it involved not playing a lot, just getting into that tom-tom figure – ba-ba-ba-ba-boom bom-boom, ba-ba-ba-ba-boom bom-boom. </li><li>And if anyone's every heard '<a href="https://www.songfacts.com/facts/roy-orbison/running-scared" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Running Scared</a>' by Roy Orbison, that was the kind of tension we were trying to create. And I like to think we did." </li><li>"Backstreets" became the name of a popular, long-running Springsteen fan magazine.</li></ul><p><br></p>