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...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...
Bruce got the heave. Never did get to see the King. He got something else, though. Nine years later, after four more albums, six Top Ten singles and several transcontinental concert jaunts, Bruce Springsteen has become the biggest American rocker since Elvis Presley. He is the new King. He owns the dream. It is his fence the fans are hopping...
Born in the U.S.A. has been a Top Ten album for over a year and, with 13 million copies sold worldwide, has become the all-time best seller in Columbia Records' history. Springsteen, 35, has been on a concert blitz since a year ago. By the time he takes a break this October, he will have played 62 cities around the world in 15 months. The shows have sold out everywhere; in Milan and Kyoto, the audiences sang whole songs with...
...Springsteen still performs his full show (four hours, counting intermission) and has made no concessions to flash. There are video screens to beam images of the Boss and the E Street Band up to seats where the air may get thin, but Springsteen works hard to retain the feeling of one-on-one communion that has characterized his shows since the early days. Intimacy is lost incrementally as venues and audiences get larger, of course, and Boss fanatics of long standing will have to do a little adjusting to their dreams. Playing music on a ball field may never...
...proclaim BRUCE--THE RAMBO OF ROCK! "In the midst of a lot of music about love, he's a spokesman for patriotism," says Larry Berger, program director of New York City's powerful WPLJ-FM. "He's the Ronald Reagan of rock 'n' roll." In fact, the only thing Springsteen has in common with Stallone's marauding murder machine is a bandanna around the forehead; and the one time the President tried to cut himself in on Boss territory ("America's future rests ... in the message of hope in songs of ... New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen...