Word: springsteen
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...Columbia has released Rockin', in an effort not only to sum up all these facets of Edmunds' career, but to do so with a "live" recording, a la Bruce Springsteen, Edmunds' labelmate and fellow retro-rocker. Of course, since Edmunds is a lesser star, Columbia has allotted him only one disc instead of five to encapsulate his long career, but surely the idea is the same...
NONETHELESS, DISCO as a musical concept lives on. Though the commercial success of Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and others have pushed hard rock 'n' roll to the front of the music scene, the thumping beat and airy, orchestral sound of disco survive. Listen to DeBarge--you'll hear Chic. Listen to Madonna. No, I said LISTEN. Don't look. Her pop is disco direct descendant...
...climactic hospital scenes where the raw exposition is nicely translated into emotion: Patti whispers anesthetic incantations into her mother's ear, then offers revelation and forgiveness as a kind of requiem prayer. Mostly, though, the plot motors along with the same predictable churn as the new Bruce Springsteen song that gives the movie its title...
This type of programming also gives thestation's disk jockeys a chance to play somethingdifferent. Last year, the rock department produceda Bruce Springsteen orgy, even though the stationrarely plays the Boss...
...BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND LIVE/1975-85 (Columbia). A personal history and a summing up, this record shows that the Boss, better than anyone, knows both the grim secrets of America and the taproots of its pride...