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Bruce Springsteen: The E Street Band Live/1975-85

John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1987

ON THE SUNNY, balmy Monday this was released the local deejays said, absenteeism in San Francisco broke all records, as tens of thousands of otherwise loyal employees called in sick so they could get in record shop lines to buy it and then go to the beach or Golden Gate Park to spend the day digging it.

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