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Hey, He's Bruce

Gene Santoro, The Nation, 29 August 2002

WHEN BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E Street Band, reunited to tour behind The Rising, came to Madison Square Garden on August 12, they juxtaposed '41 Shots', Springsteen's powerful song about Amadou Diallo's shooting by NYPD officers, with 'Into the Fire', the new album's uplifting gospel tribute to the emergency workers who climbed into the burning Twin Towers never to emerge.

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