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Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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Long Branch
New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
The Boss
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