Video: bruce springsteen THE RIVER

I first heard Bruce Springsteen when my mom got the Born in the USA LP for Christmas. It was 1984. I loved the cover artwork: blue jeans, an American flag and a baseball cap. It was simple and iconic and sort of sexy. As a family, we listened to the album constantly, the whole way through (the way you did with LPs), we sang along and I studied the lyric sheet. I remember thinking: this is grand, this is American music. My dad also owned Darkness on the Edge of Town , an [...]