Springsteen may, for the most part, adhere to time-honoured conventions but the joy, conviction and – that word – passion with which he and the band invests them, is liberating to the point where music like this is, finally, timeless. True, much of this music is traditional but not in the sense that it's time-warped or stylistically strait-jacketed. Add to that a ragged, rousing 'She La La' refrain and you've got the kind of classic American rock'n'roll that hasn't been done so effectively since the Stones were exiled on main street and John Fogerty was rockin' all over the world. Richards, no, make that Cooder-style guitar and Mighty Max Weiberg's most wicked backbeat – an unflaggingly propulsive force throughout the entire album – set this tale of wild times and bad luck in motion, and when Clarence Clemon's inimitably rude sax erupts for the first time, only the most self-inhibited could resist the swing. If proof be needed head immediately for 'Darlington County' three tracks into the first side. It's a record which also signs and seals the E-Street Band's reputation – somewhat diluted in the course of The River's meandering travels – as one of the stellar rock'n'roll aggregations. 'Born In The U.S.A.', the title track of Springsteen's new album, is the song in question and a suitably epic opening it provides, for a record which sweeps away all doubts about the man's creative well-being prompted by his long absence from stage and vinyl. But, hand on heart, I was telling the truth about Bruce. The New Jersey Turnpike was actually the Tallaght by-pass, the black Buick a grey Morris Minor, Johnny's name is Brendan and Benny's Billiards is an ultra-moderne snooker emporium out at Jobstown. OK, OK, I admit it – I told a little bit of a lie back there.
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"Bruce is back", whooped Johnny as, grinning wildly, he put his foot to the floor. Johnny was already slappin' the wheel when The Voice exploded out of the speakers, a towering, raging voice that might yet shake down the walls of Babylon: "Born in a dead man's town/The first kick I took was when I hit the ground". There was a hiss, a bit of crackle, and then it came – a monster beat with a cracking snare that nearly shook the car apart. "Lissen to this," he said, and punched a button under the dash.
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We were just shootin' the breeze when suddenly Johnny looked at me and grinned his famous grin. Lissen, the first time I heard the new Bruce Springsteen record, I was with my mate Johnny The Zip in his big black Buick screaming down the New Jersey turnpike, headin' for a major scene in Benny's Billiards.