Bruce Springsteen: Springsteen Turns On The Heat…
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 9 February 1974
HE STANDS there looking like a cross between Elvis Presley and a reject from Sha Na Na with faint Dylanesque overtones and a battered Fender Telecaster hung low enough for him to qualify for a place in the Ventures.
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