Agree with Richards about Bruce, and always have. I’d add that Springsteen’s songs tend to be way too negative, and either demean blue collar America as poor, miserable losers, or are outright anti-America. Every time I hear Manfred Mann’s cover of Blinded by the Light, I get a little feeling of schadenfreude, knowing Bruce must hate that they actually made the song a hit. It was Manfred Mann’s version that gave Bruce his only Number 1 single, and it was as the songwriter.
“Blinded by the light” I’ve always hated that song. I didn’t know the braindead dork wrote that trash.