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...shows. Anybody wants to hear it can hear it on iTunes. But you know people are listenin' to it, likin' it. Every now and then somebody don't like it, but that's okay. Similar to years ago, when the hippie thing come out and I started growin' my hair and puttin' the earring in, I got a little flak here and there...
...Eighteen years ago, Mike Cornwell, the County Democratic Chairman, and a few anonymous aides were Clinton's only companions; he now has a phalanx of Secret Service agents. His only interaction with my parents and me was much shorter: "Great to see you again--Tom, you ever gonna quit growin...
...Boss's raps embellishing some of his songs in concert can be shaggy-dog goofs or poignant dramatic reveries. Live/1975-85 offers both. Growin' Up's monologue is addressed to his mother and father, both of whom are in the audience at a 1978 Los Angeles concert ("For six years they have been following me around California, trying to get me to come home"). The River, however, begins with much darker currents, a memory of how "me and my Dad used to go at it all the time, over almost anything." He recalls how his father waited until Springsteen was laid...
...spose to be uh orange pickuh, or suth-in, an he fall offuh his ladder one day, smack in frontuh uh labor-union cat who axing foh volunteeahs tuh sign up. Photographuh's rat thayuh, an-OOO-EE!-next day Richard, his pitchuh in duh papuh. Orange-growin boss, he don't want no truck with no union, an he run Richard-name's Leroy Jones in duh movie-rat on outuh town, an nemmine that Leroy has tuh leave his wife behine...
...fans looking for a fast autograph. As much as anything, they were all unofficial delegates of a generation acting on the truth of Springsteen's line from Thunder Road: "Show a little faith, there's magic in the night." Just at that doorstep, they found it. Growin...