Bruce Springsteen: Magic
Status of copy at Case Memorial Library
Alan Bisbort wrote in the Hartford Advocate: "Magic may be Bruce's best 'big sound' album since Born to Run. One senses a new freedom in the way he sings. He's not mumbling or whispering, but really opening up the pipes on 'Your Own Worst Enemy,' 'Girls in Their Summer Clothes' and 'I'll Work for Your Love.' He kicks Magic off with a guitar riff on 'Radio Nowhere' as instantly classic as anything he's ever done. Hell, even the strings work on the slower numbers. All this brilliant music is built on a solid thematic foundation that finds Bruce mourning an America gone wrong under you-know-who's leadership" ("CD Shorts," 10/25/07).
Dave Marsh wrote in Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s: "The crowd knows what it's in for: a four-hour spectacular that is both sheer intoxication and a ritual invocation of the human spirit in the most peculiarly American way. For the first time since Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll is native-born and, maybe for the first time ever, that crown is worn not lightly but with the full weight of adult awareness" (p. 3).
Alan Bisbort wrote in the Hartford Advocate: "Magic may be Bruce's best 'big sound' album since Born to Run. One senses a new freedom in the way he sings. He's not mumbling or whispering, but really opening up the pipes on 'Your Own Worst Enemy,' 'Girls in Their Summer Clothes' and 'I'll Work for Your Love.' He kicks Magic off with a guitar riff on 'Radio Nowhere' as instantly classic as anything he's ever done. Hell, even the strings work on the slower numbers. All this brilliant music is built on a solid thematic foundation that finds Bruce mourning an America gone wrong under you-know-who's leadership" ("CD Shorts," 10/25/07).
Dave Marsh wrote in Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s: "The crowd knows what it's in for: a four-hour spectacular that is both sheer intoxication and a ritual invocation of the human spirit in the most peculiarly American way. For the first time since Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll is native-born and, maybe for the first time ever, that crown is worn not lightly but with the full weight of adult awareness" (p. 3).
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