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Partly as a result, Willwerth approached this week's story "expecting quite a bit." His first meeting with Springsteen began after midnight in an Italian restaurant on Manhattan's East Side. The two then drove down the New Jersey Turnpike to the singer's seaside bungalow. Springsteen, who is wary of journalists and normally reticent, began to open up during the ride. "Somehow the driving seemed to release something," Willwerth reports. "We talked about his family, his music, his early bar-hopping band days, the fame that is catching up with him for good and bad." Interrupted...
Meanwhile, in New York, Reporter-Researcher Jean Vallely and Staff Writer Joan Downs traced Springsteen's often difficult career. Downs, who wrote our first story on Springsteen (TIME, April 1, 1974), interviewed legendary Music Man John Hammond. Vallely dug for Springsteen's musical inspirations in the dingy ambiance of his adopted home town, Asbury Park, N.J. She visited the boardwalk haunts where Springsteen "hung out" penniless only a few years ago She also encountered old Springsteen sidekicks, whose names have been woven into his lyrics. One 4½hour interview with Southside Johnny began cautiously but ended with...
...Bruce Springsteen is onto this. In fact, he has written a song about...
...been called the "last innocent in rock," which is at best partly true, but that is how he appears to audiences who are exhausted and on fire at the end of a concert. Springsteen is not a golden California boy or a glitter queen from Britain. Dressed usually in leather jacket and shredded undershirt, he is a glorified gutter rat from a dying New Jersey resort town who walks with an easy swagger that is part residual stage presence, part boardwalk braggadocio. He nurtures the look of a lowlife romantic even though he does not smoke, scarcely drinks and disdains...
...other ways, however, he is the dead-on image of a rock musician: street smart but sentimental, a little enigmatic, articulate mostly through his music. For 26 years Springsteen has known nothing but poverty and debt until, just in the past few weeks, the rock dream came true for him. ("Man, when I was nine I couldn't imagine anyone not wanting to be Elvis Presley.") But he is neither sentimental nor superficial. His music is primal, directly in touch with all the impulses of wild humor and glancing melancholy, street tragedy and punk anarchy that have made rock...