Music Review - Bruce Stringsteen, the class of the field

On Ju­ly 7, 1978, The Times pop mu­sic crit­ic Robert Hil­burn wrote that when Bruce Spring­steen called his band to the front of the stage Wed­nes­day night after a dazzling, emo­tion­ally drain­ing hour-and-10-minute per­form­ance, the guy across the aisle from me at the Ingle­wood For­um figured the con­cert was over.