Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S number one song "Born in the USA" was widely misinterpreted by people who never listened past the chorus. They mistakenly believed that it was a blindly patriotic anthem, the Star Spangled Banner of rock...
Consequently, last Fourth of July, NBC featured a clip of Springsteen singing the chorus. Up With People sang it at the Superbowl halftime. Hulk Hogan played the song every time he entered the ring. And Chevrolet offered Springsteen $12 million to use the song for a commercial campaign...
...Bruce Springsteen fans came out in full force last week and jammed record stores around Cambridge to buy the Boss's latest recording, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band--Live/1975-85...
Apparently, Cambridge's Bruce fans were not fanatical enough to ignore a good buy. The Coop drowned out its competition with a record sale of 1200 copies. Assistant Buyer Bobby Hall says that the Coop had not had that kind of one-day record sale since the release of Springsteen's album "The River" in 1980. "With everybody out of school, it was a real zoo in here," said Hall...
That is what makes Live/1975-85 unique: it is a concert as well as a confessional. Springsteen makes everyone accomplices in the shared experience of a common emotional life. And, as the cheers fade after the last song, there is a sure sense that it is time for him to move on. This is traveling music, then, for a trip that has finished and a journey that is about to begin. Put on Live/1975-85 and start waiting again...