Bruce Springsteen: Wrecking Ball – review

Springsteen successfully treads the line between stirring and 'corny as hell' (his words) on his genuinely angry new albumOver the last 30 years, Bruce Springsteen's career occasionally seems to have hinged not on changing tastes or fashions, but on world events. The album that propelled him to global superstardom, 1984's Born in the USA, was born out of the early-80s recession and became entangled in Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign, albeit unwittingly. The "lost decade" that began with 199...

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