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Bruce Springsteen: Los Angeles Sports Arena, California

Sylvie Simmons, New Musical Express, 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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