Bruce Springsteen: The Last American Hero
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 5 January 1980
MUST BE some new kind of drug or somethin', 'cos even a 16-year-old don't do a graveyard shift of four hours and then dance on the piano, let alone some old reprobate who only just ditched that scrubby face fuzz, y'know, some New Jersey geezer who I'd always thought of as an amped-up folksinger with funky sneakers and a sloppy line in self-mythologising.
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