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...When it's over, however, we're left feeling just a tad sheepish. Although we've spent two and a half hours indulging high school fantasies, we have nothing to show for it but an appreciation for 60s fashion and a head full of Bruce Springsteen...
...Life Is Good, Newman slings an arm over the shoulder of his "very good friend . . . Mr. Bruce Springsteen." In Take Me Back, a lively rave-up propelled by a roadhouse-style Farfisa organ, he chronicles how a life of early promise guttered and ended "by this dirty old airport/ In this greasy little shack." Randy Newman may live far from that kind of address-in Santa Monica, Calif., in fact, with a wife and three sons-but his imagination still dwells in the long shadows. Says his brother Alan: "Randy looks at the world from the underside...
...Steve Van Zandt, 32, rock guitarist for the E Street Band, and Dancer Maureen Santoro, 32; both for the first time; in New York City. The minister was rock-'n'-roll legend Little Richard (Evangelist Richard Penniman), the best man Van Zandt's sometime boss Bruce Springsteen...
...Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska (Columbia). Just guitar, harmonica and ten songs: a nightmare geography of America...
...Nebraska, Springsteen's obsession with the family, especially with the father, is more prominent than ever before. In these songs, the head of the house shoulders the burden of the broken dreams, and the family, racked economically from the outside and crumbling on the inside from psychic wounds too deep ever to heal, comes to stand for America. But the record is not without its characteristic humor. Springsteen's writing has seldom been as fleet ("Early north Jersey industrial skyline I'm a all/ set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime"), and he is the only...