I have been a Bruce Springsteen fan since age 12. I loved his music, especially his first five albums. I still do. One of the things I loved about him and his music during his early era was that he was apolitical, or at most not overtly political. As he became more and more political, beginning with his sixth album (Nebraska), I dealt with it. The way he focused on the lives of people affected by events in the USA, rather than going all 60s-radical and singing about politics,

I was all of a wee second grader when this came out, without an inkling of who this artist was ...