Bruce Springsteen: The Man Who Would Save Rock And Roll
Greil Marcus, New West, February 1981
LAST OCTOBER Bruce Springsteen released his fifth album, The River, which went swiftly to number one in the States, and began a tour that will take him and the E Street Band across the length and breadth of the United States, into Canada, to Great Britain, to Europe, Japan and Australia. As interesting as this event is its context.
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