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...Rising also marks the return of the E Street Band. The band--seven hardworking Joes in their 50s and 60s, plus Springsteen's wife, backup singer and Jersey girl Patti Scialfa--has always been a proxy for the Springsteen audience. The E Streeters don't eat meat sandwiches out of metal lunch boxes, but it's easy to believe that they could. Their 15-year absence from Springsteen's recorded music opened a gulf between the Boss and his core fans, one that The Rising seems intent on closing...
What's missing on The Rising is politics. Springsteen says he has never considered himself a political person, but after Ronald Reagan tried to hijack Born in the U.S.A. for his 1984 re-election campaign, the singer developed a spare but effective political voice that he generally raises on behalf of liberal causes and the occasional liberal candidate. In 1991 he played a fund raiser for the Christic Institute, a radical think tank that has repeatedly accused the U.S. government of illegal covert action in Latin America. On the subject of America's current foreign policy, he is with...
Springsteen claims he is a big believer in the old saw "Trust the art, not the artist." But Springsteen devotees love the songs and the singer equally, and by playing his fans' experiences back to them over stadium speakers, Springsteen has been an active partner in a pop syllogism: he sings about people like me; he looks and dresses like me; therefore he must be a person like me! Perhaps what Springsteen means, as some of his friends suggest, is that he feels less worthy than the people he sings about. Perhaps that's why touring, communing with those...
...retro-rock productions are so crass. A quieter new musical hit in London is an engaging little show called Taboo, which recaps the rise and drug-addled fall of Boy George, the androgynous former lead singer of the band Culture Club. The surprise is that, aside from three old favorites (with Karma Chameleon as the obligatory curtain-call rouser), the show has a new score, written by (former Boy) George O'Dowd himself. Helped by Christopher Renshaw's cabaret-style production and a dead-on performance as George by Euan Morton, O'Dowd's supple melodies and touching but tough...
...president finally gets invitation to Dubya's Crawford ranch in Texas. Bush will teach him how to lasso terrorists one-handed NATALIE DU TOIT One-legged swimmer makes finals in Commonwealth Games. For her next trick, she'll do it with one hand tied behind her back TOBY KEITH Singer tops U.S. charts with The Angry American album. International version, Arrogant Annoying Americans, is in the works Losers BRITNEY SPEARS Pop princess cuts short Mexico tour after giving press the finger and ending a concert early. Charm school is finally paying off NAOMI CAMPBELL Supermodel battles with a tabloid over...