In praise of … Bruce Springsteen | Editorial

His appeal is bound up in his ability to mesh political lyrics with mass appeal melodiesThe Boss is back, and he's backing Obama. Forty years after his mother gave him a $13 guitar, the working-class boy from New Jersey fills stadiums singing songs about unions, poverty and worklessness. Bruce Springsteen's appeal is bound up in his ability to mesh political lyrics with mass appeal melodies, in a form you could call the electric protest song. Take Johnny 99 – a murder spurred by unemployment a...

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