BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Rock 'n' Roll Glory Days!

The Boss was beat. He had finished another in a series of marathon concerts, showered and had a rubdown. He reeked of Ben Gay, but the gleam was still in his eyes, the smile still on his face.

The fans had filed out of the arena more than an hour ago and the man they had come to see now leaned back in his locker room chair, his feet propped up on the coffee table in front of him. Bruce Springsteen was ready to talk.

“I always like to leave the stage with no regrets, you know,” he says, punctuating his point with nervous laughter. ‘‘That’s the way I am. This is your life and your last chance. A business-like attitude toward that sort of thing is not appropriate. I want our band to deliver something that you can’t buy. That’s the idea behind it.”

That’s why Springsteen performs every concert like it’s going to be his last one. The passion, the commitment, the urgency, the vitality...night after night. No one in the history of rock ’n’ roll has been so consistently exciting in concert for so long. And yet the Boss changes.