With his leather jacket, 501s, and week's worth of stubble, Bruce de-wussified the singer-songwriter, proving you don't have to plug in to rock out - and when you do plug in, you don't have to l …

Deflecting the light of his celebrity onto his partners, Springsteen rides shotgun on others' projects not just as a sidekick, but also as a musical evangelist. Bruce and Roy Orbison drip rockabilly de …

"We learned more from a three-minute record," Bruce sings in "No Surrender," "than we ever learned in school." What he didn't mention is that the three-minute record was his school, and he's spe …