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...BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S number one song "Born in the USA" was widely misinterpreted by people who never listened past the chorus. They mistakenly believed that it was a blindly patriotic anthem, the Star Spangled Banner of rock...
Consequently, last Fourth of July, NBC featured a clip of Springsteen singing the chorus. Up With People sang it at the Superbowl halftime. Hulk Hogan played the song every time he entered the ring. And Chevrolet offered Springsteen $12 million to use the song for a commercial campaign...
Even worse, t-shirts and bumper stickers soon read "Springsteen: the Rambo of Rock." People compared Springsteen to Stallone, the Boss to Shambo. A look at the two superstars' beliefs about war--and specifically about Vietnam--reveals some of the stupidity of this assertion...
...Bruce Springsteen fans came out in full force last week and jammed record stores around Cambridge to buy the Boss's latest recording, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band--Live/1975-85...
Apparently, Cambridge's Bruce fans were not fanatical enough to ignore a good buy. The Coop drowned out its competition with a record sale of 1200 copies. Assistant Buyer Bobby Hall says that the Coop had not had that kind of one-day record sale since the release of Springsteen's album "The River" in 1980. "With everybody out of school, it was a real zoo in here," said Hall...