Word: springsteen
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MUSIC: With a sold-out megatour, Springsteen owns rock's biggest dream...
...hugest American star since Elvis Presley. Born in the U.S.A. has been a best-selling album for more than a year, and Bruce Springsteen is playing Super Bowl-size venues to accommodate old fans and new. Audiences sing the record's title track with anthemic fervor, but Springsteen remains an uncompromising populist and chronicler of the lost American promise...
...that fame, all of a sudden. What was it all about? Even back then, Bruce Springsteen was too smart to try to find out. Except one time...
...Memphis, after a concert in 1976. Springsteen and a couple of pals made a midnight pilgrimage out to Graceland, where rock's first real King still dwelled. Outside those gates, a certain madness took hold. The Boss wanted to meet Elvis, and he made a sudden, sprung-loose, solo commando raid on the sacred fortress. He was grabbed and turned back, and it was then, as he still likes to tell it, that he cashed in all his chips. "I'm Bruce Springsteen!" he yelled. "I was on the cover of TIME! The cover of Newsweek! I got an album...
...back on the road appearing in the concert halls of Belgium and the Netherlands with the Young@Heart Chorus, a 21-member Northampton, Mass., group in their 70s, 80s and 90s that performs rock-'n'-roll classics by such masters as the Clash, the Rolling Stones, Hendrix and Springsteen on a grueling touring schedule around the globe...