Bruce Springsteen: The Man, The Myth, The Magic
Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 25 October 1980
MILWAUKEE IS up by the Great Lakes in the industrial badlands. Concrete freeways, steel chimneys, cloudy skies and breweries. The kind of place "where Mister when you're young/They bring you up to do like your Daddy done."
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