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Springsteen : No Surrender
Anbieter: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, USA
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Springsteen: No Surrender
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Music Sales Corporation, 1987
ISBN 10: 0711910642
ISBN 13: 9780711910645
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Springteen - No Surrender
Anbieter: Crappy Old Books, Barry, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Springteen ? No Surrender (1986) by Kate Lynch Bobcat Books | ISBN: 9780711910645 Condition: Good As sold by Crappy Old Books There are rock biographies written with the solemn gravity of state papers, and then there are the brisk, enthusiastic paperback lives of pop and rock icons produced for readers who wanted the story, the songs, the struggle, and at least a fighting chance of understanding the phenomenon before the posters came down. Springteen ? No Surrender belongs happily to that latter tradition: compact, energetic, and entirely aware that Bruce Springsteen was not merely a singer but a full-scale cultural weather system. Even the title has a wonderful mid-1980s confidence to it. No Surrender was, of course, one of the defining Springsteen songs of youthful defiance and battered optimism, and it makes perfect sense as the banner under which to package the life of a man who managed to look simultaneously like the hardest-working person in New Jersey and the patron saint of denim sincerity. Springsteen has always occupied that peculiar territory where rock stardom meets blue-collar mythology, and books about him inevitably have to wrestle with both the music and the legend. Kate Lynch?s volume comes from an era when Springsteen was already firmly established as more than just another successful recording artist. By 1986 he was Bruce Springsteen : the voice of boardwalk dreams, highway melancholy, factory-town longing, and the sort of grand, open-hearted American seriousness that somehow made even very large arenas feel briefly intimate. He was the man who turned sweat, work, escape, memory, and old cars into a near-religious vocabulary of modern rock. That, of course, is the respectable version. The ironic version is that Springsteen also became one of the few rock stars to make earnestness look not merely acceptable but heroic. While other performers were busy cultivating mystery, decadence, or alarming hair, Springsteen was out there in a checked shirt appearing to mean every word of every line. This ought not to have worked nearly as well as it did. Yet somehow the sheer commitment, the marathon performances, and the total absence of fashionable cool combined to make him cooler than most people trying much harder. Books like this have a special charm because they capture not just the facts of a career but the atmosphere of fandom around it. This is not some later academic excavation of Springsteen-as-cultural-text, solemnly unpacking masculinity and industrial decline over several hundred footnoted pages. It is a period biography, written close enough to the phenomenon to retain some of the excitement. You can almost hear the records spinning in the background and the faint rustle of Smash Hits-era curiosity turning into proper devotion. The 1986 Bobcat Books edition also has that very particular feel of music publishing from the period: accessible, immediate, and aimed at readers who wanted to know more about the artist behind the songs without having to wait for a deluxe documentary box set and three podcasts. It belongs to the age of paperback pop mythology, when one bought books like this because one liked the music enough to want the story as well, and because there was still something pleasingly physical about fandom being carried home in print. This copy is in good condition , with the expected signs of age and reading, but remains sound, presentable, and entirely ready for another admirer of Springsteen?s long road from New Jersey bars to global significance. It has endured rather well, which feels appropriate for a book attached to a man whose whole public image was built on perseverance, conviction, and refusing to let the world grind the spirit down completely. A lovely item for Springsteen fans, collectors of music biographies, 1980s pop-culture paperbacks, or anyone who enjoys the age when rock stars were still explained in slim printed volumes rather than endless online think-pieces. Springteen ? No Su. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6013
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