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...album is full of gruff courage and sadness, but never despair. "Darkness is about dealing with despair," Springsteen says, "about people trying to hold on to their dignity in the middle of a hurricane. You look around, you see people on the street dug in. You know they're already six feet under, people with nothin' to lose and full of poison. I try to write about the other choice they...
...Badlands, when Springsteen sings, "I believe in the love that you gave me/ I believe in the faith that can save me," it is not only the spirits of his Catholic childhood showing themselves, raising memories of the kid who was asked to draw a picture of Jesus and presented the nun with a rendering of Christ crucified on a guitar. What also comes through is his unshakable belief in the power of music. "When I was growing up," he says, "the only thing that never let me down was rock 'n' roll." Upon this rock, Springsteen has built...
...always remember," he says, "rock 'n' roll's never about giving up. For me?for a lot of kids?it was a totally positive force . . . not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never?never ?about surrender." Like the people in his songs, Springsteen reaches high, always making the big grab but never loosing aim. When a visiting English journalist suggested to him a couple of weeks ago that he was trying to write "the great American novel on albums," Springsteen just grinned and replied, "The great American drive-in movie's more like...
...fact, all those night riders across the neon terrain not only summon familiar memories, but have misled some reviewers into thinking that Springsteen has driven himself right off Thunder Road and into a rut. "But," he says, "everything has its limitations and its ultimate possibilities, and you got to test them to find out what they are. It's like those Italian westerns at the drive-in. I always loved it that they showed 'em all at once. That's the way I make these albums?so they get played all at once...
...albums are getting played plenty. FM radio seems inundated, Darkness has just gone platinum, and Springsteen, en route to three sold-out concerts at Madison Square Garden later this month, is currently storming the heartland, dishing out 2½ hours of red-hot rock. His E Street Band helps keep things always at the boiling point. They are powerhouse musicians who have raised roadhouse rock to Olympian heights. The driving delicacy of Roy Bittan's piano, Danny Federici's flights of rough-and-tumble fantasy on the organ, and the hang-tough beat of Max Weinberg's drums, Garry Tallent...