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Dream Baby Dream

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I can think of one performer who cared about his audience as much as The Boss did. It's Freddie Mercury. It is amazing how much emotion Springsteen can imbue to this Post-rock anthem of Suicide.

The Natural Born Twins: The Boss and the Il Capo

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Bruce Springsteen, a.k.a. The Boss: Alessandro del Piero, a.k.a Il Capo:

Same Story, 3 Songs, 3 Charachters

The Boy and The Girl fall in love. The Girl leaves the boy. The Boy is angry, and dreams of the Tirl suffering to ease his pain. An archetypal love story, which found its way into the repertoire of many singer/song-writers. Three of my favorites' approach to the story shows a lot about their character. First, the Boss. Bruce Springsteen's 1980 album River contains one of his best songs Point Blank. The hero sees his old lover on the streets and she doesn't say hi. The boss writes her a song how she is becoming just another lost soul of the society. He is sad for her, and sings her one the best lines in pop music history describing the sad nature of human condition: "Do you still say your prayers little darlin' do you go to bed at night Prayin' that tomorrow, everything will be alright But tomorrow's fall in number in number one by one You wake up and you're dying you don't even know what from" Lou Reed on the other side is certain that Sally ...