[blam]

" And I would never say that he 'lacked talent'."

Okay.

I remember the first time I ever heard of Bruce Springsteen. It was because he had accomplished a first in public relations/marketing by having his photo appear on the cover of Time and Newsweek magazine in the same week.

Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run, makes the covers of Newsweek and Time, October 27, 1975

[Tallguy]

I remember the first time I ever heard of Bruce Springsteen. It was because he had accomplished a first in public relations/marketing by having his photo appear on the cover of Time and Newsweek magazine in the same week.

Bruce's publicity agent must have earned a nice bonus for that rare double!

Never really understood the hype -- and I'm from the Philadelphia area where Bruce was really big (still is, I guess). If I had to guess I'd say that Bruce came in at a very bad time for Rock & Roll. Many of the veteran bands were gone, Disco was pretty much in vogue, and New Wave wasn't really here yet. Bruce caught the wave perfectly, from a sales & marketing standpoint. I'll give him that much.