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Bruce Springsteen: The River (CBS)

David Hepworth, The Face, November 1980

THEY GAVE me 350 words and Wednesday evening to account for the fact that my heart took to pumping double when this record slid out of its envelope, why Bruce Springsteen makes old fashioned fans out of writers who by rights should be looking for steady jobs, and there I go wasting 50 of them.

Total word count of piece: 369

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