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I’ve seen Bruce Springsteen twice in the last few months. He is better than anything on the radio, and he has a new single, “Born to Run,” which, if we are at all fortunate, will be played across the land by now. Given the current paucity of interesting subject matter, he’s the subject of this column.

October 1, 1974
David March

"Walk Tall... Or Don't Walk At All"

DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL

David March

I’ve seen Bruce Springsteen twice in the last few months. He is better than anything on the radio, and he has a new single, “Born to Run,” which, if we are at all fortunate, will be played across the land by now. Given the current paucity of interesting subject matter, he’s the subject of this column.

When I first saw him, last April in Boston, it was in a sweaty little bar in Harvard Square, packed to the walls with street kids and college students, rock writers and general hangers-on, drunks and know-it-alls.I expected nothing; I got everything.

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