Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently, the cinema had only one theatre and doubled as a concert hall. In the 1970's Bruce Springsteen. David Bowie, and Bob Dylan were among the many superstars who played before audiences of nearly 2000 in the theatre, Graham said...
Right or wrong, a large number of sedately bald men would rather look like some wild-haired rocker, Bruce Springsteen, say. When the Washington Hospital Center asked for volunteers to test the effects of minoxidil, 10,000 hopefully offered themselves. One hundred were chosen; the other 9,900 were left to console themselves with Yuppiegoo and daydreams. And that is what the FDA, ignoring President Reagan's preaching against Government regulation, seems to be heartlessly and needlessly trying to regulate out of existence...
...BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: BORN IN THE U.S.A. (Columbia). Songs about bad memories and blind hope: rock record of the year...
...Bruce Springsteen: Shut Out the Light (Columbia). This single song is under four minutes long but packs a punch stronger than most albums. His Born in the U.S.A., released in May, not only has no serious competition for album of the year (except maybe Prince's Purple Rain), it marked Springsteen's breakthrough to a wider audience. Newcomers should be tipped off to some information well known to fans of long standing: it pays to buy the single versions of the album's hits because stashed away on the flip sides are entirely new songs unavailable elsewhere...
...Bass Player Mark O'Toole, Drummer Peter ("Fed") Gill, both 20, and Lead Guitarist Brian ("Nasher") Nash, 21. Johnson, who is front man as well as vocalist, comes on as the archetypal Brit pop poofter, waving a salmon-colored silk scarf as he wafts his way through Springsteen's Born to Run. Boomed a member of the rehearsal audience at Frankie's Saturday Night Live appearance two weeks ago: "Bruce is better...