Word: wanna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though his imagery was accessible and his themes were easy to relate to, he successfully managed to avoid banality. Springsteen grasped one of the basic problems of rock and roll: as a mass-culture, relatively unsophisticated art form, it deals best with simple ideas and emotions, conveyed straightforwardly ("I wanna hold your hand", "I can't get no satisfaction"), and because of that, runs the risk of becoming mediocre. Springsteen doesn't try to be another Dylan (and he's not), but he is an insightful story teller and rock and roll balladeer, and that is more than...
...takes its cue from a familiar situation--a jaded senior, unable to find inspiration in his term paper, thinks back to "that night four years ago in Greenough" when three sleazy muses wrapped in feather boas slinked into his room to ask provocatively, "In the mood for some...conceptualization?... Wanna...toy with some ideas...
...those 50 and up. At the St. James Theater one can hear / Didn 't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, I'm in Love With Vienna, I've Told Ev'ry Little Star, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, I Wanna Be Loved By You, and I'm Just Wild About Harry. The Fs have it, but don't forget Sophisticated Lady, Ain 't Misbehavin', and Me and My Shadow...
...Worlds when he observes that in America, "the peddler becomes the boss and the Yeshiva student sits at the sewing machine." At one point, as her neighbor Mrs. Kavarsky is squeezing a groaning Gitl into a corset for that sleek American look, she tells her, "You wanna be in America, you gotta hurt...
Appel also called John Hammond at Columbia. The call was Springsteen's idea, but the come-on was all Appel. He told Hammond he wanted him to listen to his new boy because Hammond had discovered Bob Dylan, and "we wanna see if that was just a fluke, or if you really have ears." Hammond reacted to Springsteen "with a force I'd felt maybe three times in my life." Less than 24 hours after the first meeting, contracts were signed...