Bruce Springsteen: Los Angeles Sports Arena, California
Sylvie Simmons, NME, 22 November 1980
IT'S EASY to see why the girls go so much on him. You got the excitable adolescent of 'Rosalita', 'Crush On You' – hey hey hey what you say Cherri darling, quick-romance-behind-the-stadium frenzy – and you got the grand romantic tough-and-tender stuff, big gestures, big everything and he can prove it all night too.
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