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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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