![]() ![]() It’s a typically bizarre and delightful moment from an utterly unique, endlessly exhilarating, last-chance-power-drive of a memoir. ![]() So they give up and head to a fancy restaurant, where being famous means they can get a table in full rock-god drag. Steven’s bandanna is neither red nor blue but an indeterminate hue, chosen carefully and precisely to complement the rest of his ‘look’ by the man who invented the male babushka.” They huff off to Knott’s Berry Farm instead – but can’t get in there either. ![]() As Springsteen explains, “This, say the powers that be, is so he will not be misidentified as a gang member, Blood or Crip, and fall victim to a drive-by while hurling his cookies on Space Mountain. Except they get thrown out for refusing to take off their bandannas. He and his longtime lieutenant Steve Van Zandt decide to celebrate with a trip to Disneyland. “Dancing in the Dark” is a Number One smash. The summer of 1984: Bruce Springsteen has just dropped Born In The U.S.A., blowing him up from superstar to mega-hyper-uberstar. ![]()
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