Word: springsteen
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...Bruce Springsteen The Boss has never won album of the year, and there was growing sentiment in the last few weeks that Magic would end up being the Grammy equivalent of the The Departed - a lifetime achievement make-up call for years of overlooking superior work. Instead, Springsteen gets bumped out of album consideration by the Foo Figters, and his four nominations are in lesser categories...
...joke by imitating Bono’s legato quaver. The “Wish You Were Here” intro harkens back to “Jessie’s Girl,” and “Burning Photographs” references the work of another famous Springsteen. Thin Lizzy quotes abound, and so do hooks. Plus the album’s mixed and mastered nearly as well as vintage AC/DC; it sounds loud at nearly every volume level.Sure, a lot of “Rock N Roll” is shitty, but the same goes for the genre...
...back to December 10th.) Some 25 million fans surged online for that show's 18,000 tickets, crashing the arena's website (which goes to show that online, the O2 still has some way to go in terms of dealing with expectations). Other upcoming big draws include Bruce Springsteen, the long awaited return of the Spice Girls, (whose tour sold out in 38 seconds) and Kanye West...
Imagine a publisher signing a writer like Richard Ford to a three-book deal, then telling him to forget about those long, languid sentences and write punchier. Or a promoter snaring Bruce Springsteen, only to insist he limit himself to Barry Manilow covers. This kind of shackling of talent is what defined the Rugby World Cup, which ended with the unlikely England-South Africa final in Paris on Oct. 20. As frustrating a tournament as many would care to recall - up there with the worst of the soccer World Cups and their goal-less, gamesmanship-ridden ordeals - the event proved...
...whistle in a sport that lacks flow at the best of times. A rugby revival depends on convincing the top whistleblowers that a Test match isn't the time to show off their grasp of every obscure law in the book. You don't halt a Springsteen concert because the man sang...