Why does Bruce Springsteen make middle-aged men behave like teenagers at their first pop show?

For all the everyman gestures, what the Boss really does is remind his fans how perfect and ridiculous pop can beIn 2000 I interviewed Badly Drawn Boy for Select magazine and asked him about his obsession with Bruce Springsteen. In the Select office, this was the source of some bemusement. It was during Springsteen's lost decade, when he moved to California, remarried, sacked the E Street Band and released commercially limp (though not terrible) albums. In 2000, especially to a lo-fi singer-song...

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