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Bruce Springsteen: At Wembley Stadium

Biba Kopf, New Musical Express, 13 July 1985

I HAVE seen the future cast as a rock'n'roll song. I do not much like what I see: Bruce Springsteen everywhere confirmed as the way forward – the museum-keeper to the flame as the Messiah (yet again). The future once more beats a retreat to the past. Your place in it hinges on your having a share in the collective memory that governs it.

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