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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word come? By one account, 13 Apostles (top leaders) experienced a common revelation at a prayer meeting on June 1. In other renditions it came complete with a visitation from Joseph Smith, the prophet of Palmyra, N. Y., who founded the faith in 1830. In an interview, his first since the announcement, Kimball described it much more matter of factly to TIME Staff Writer Richard Ostling: "I spent a good deal of time in the temple alone, praying for guidance, and there was a gradual and general development of the whole program, in connection with the Apostles...
...draw a picture of Jesus and presented the nun with a rendering of Christ crucified on a guitar. What also comes through is his unshakable belief in the power of music. "When I was growing up," he says, "the only thing that never let me down was rock 'n' roll." Upon this rock, Springsteen has built his church, which glows not with heavenly light but with the carny fluorescence of a Wurlitzer...
...always remember," he says, "rock 'n' roll's never about giving up. For me?for a lot of kids?it was a totally positive force . . . not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never?never ?about surrender." Like the people in his songs, Springsteen reaches high, always making the big grab but never loosing aim. When a visiting English journalist suggested to him a couple of weeks ago that he was trying to write "the great American novel on albums," Springsteen just grinned and replied, "The great American drive-in movie's more like...
...remains wary of celebrity, recalling, "When I was a kid, what mattered to me more than the performers was the power of the music. People emphasize the personal too much. Being a rock star, that's like the booby prize. Me, I set out to be a rock 'n' roller...
...each show, Springsteen will drop to one knee in front of the mike and yell with the sort of mock melodrama that cloaks an almost literal truth, "I'm just a prisoner . . . of rock 'n' roll!" In the audience, his fellow lifers laugh and cheer, delirious inmates in the same cell. Of all those prisoners, though, only the Boss holds...