The songwriter and singer gave hope to working-class boys in towns thousands of miles from New Jersey.
In the Britain of Thatcher and the fascist National Front, and again in the age of Boris and Bozo the Clown, Muslims are condemned for being different.
How Bruce Springsteen Unites the World
I should have felt despondent, but I didn’t care because I had a
one-word escape plan: America. For the teenage me, America was not an
actual place so much as it was an idea and ideal. I learned about
America not through travel but from John Hughes and Martin Scorsese,
from Studs Terkel and John Steinbeck and, most importantly, from Bruce
Springsteen.