Bruce Springsteen
Adam Sweeting, Uncut, September 2002
IF ALL YOU'VE ever seen of New Jersey is Newark airport or the bits they show you in the opening sequence of The Sopranos, you will have assumed it's a grimy jungle of factories, warehouses and shopping malls interspersed with toxic waste dumps. It's the kind of place where they've given up trying to count the number of corpses stirred into the concrete buttresses holding up the freeways.
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