Bruce Springsteen and the most important gig review in history

22 May 1974: Number 29 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock musicJon Landau was a music writer who'd failed as a producer, and who was wondering about his place in the world. Bruce Springsteen was on his second album for CBS, but far from a star. The coming together of the two was their making. "Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theater, I saw rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes," Landau wrote in a confessional review for the Boston alternative free sheet the Real Paper...

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