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Blood Brothers? Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama
First a joint podcast, now a book — why is the American cultural icon whose music speaks to the plight of the working class allowing himself to be so closely asscociated with a centrist Democrat soaked in the blood of military aggression, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Bruce Springsteen performs during the Invictus Games Closing Ceremony in 2017 (left) and former US president Barack Obama delivers a speech to delegates during the Cop26 summit last week

HAVING released a joint podcast earlier this year, US music superstar Bruce Springsteen and former president Barack Obama have just published those conversations as a book — Renegades: Born In The USA.

The podcast was hugely popular and no doubt the book will be a bestseller this Christmas and beyond.

As a Springsteen fan, I’m very uneasy about this partnership.

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