Word: springsteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs more bands that kick down our doors and shatter our complacency. Give us the unrestrained Sex Pistols doing "Johnny B. Goode," forgetting the lyrics. Or Dylan or Springsteen, moving toward some poetic vision, trying to find a way to reaffirm life in the face of death. Leave the dildo to Steely Dan, to those who can't enjoy real...
...Bruce Springsteen: The River (Columbia, 2 LPs). "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true/ Or is it something worse?" No lie: rock as good as it gets...
...little reminder was in order, a small history lesson, and there was no one better to lead the class than Bruce Springsteen. Lennon had lately become warmly admiring of Springsteen, especially his hit single Hungry Heart. Springsteen could probably have let Lennon's death pass unremarked, and few in the audience at his Philadelphia concert last Tuesday would have been troubled. But instead of ripping right into the first song, Springsteen simply said, "If it wasn't for John Lennon, a lot of us would be some place much different tonight. It's a hard world that...
Then Bruce and the E Street Band tore into Springsteen's own anthem, Born to Run, making it clear that playing was the best thing to do. Guitarist Steve Van Zandt let the tears roll down his face, and Organist Danny Federici hit the board so hard he broke a key. By the second verse, the song turned into a challenge the audience was happy to accept: "I wanna know love is wild, I wanna know love is real," Springsteen yelled and they yelled back. By the end, it sounded like redemption John Lennon knew that sound...
...where is everybody? Where is the party, the beer, the music? At least there should be some music! Over in the common room some guy is playing the piano and upstairs some other guy is doing a Gregorian chant, but c'mon! Where are the tunes? Where is the Springsteen? Who are these people? But of course...they're first and second-year med students...