GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Compelling complexities and contradictions of Bruce Springsteen
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a book with some revelatory insights into the work of the rock legend
Bruce Springsteen
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Bruce Springsteen: Like a Killer in the Sun (Selected Lyrics, 1972-2017)
by Leonardo Colombati
(Backbeat Books, £26)
WEIGHING in at a mighty 600 pages this is an unorthodox biography of Bruce Springsteen, related through song lyrics, critical commentaries, timelines, catalogues and lists.
The underpinning scholarship is impressive, as is Leonardo Colombati’s knack for linking events to developments in musical storytelling, and considerable credit for the book’s lively and accessible style should go to its translator Francesca Bolza.
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