Is There Anybody Alive Out There?
Next month, after playing Sunderland, Manchester and the Isle of Wight, Bruce Springsteen heads for London, England, as his European "Wrecking Ball" tour continues. The show happens a week before the most aggressively corporate Olympics Games ever staged take place, and on the centenary of the birth of Woody Guthrie, the father of American folk protest. Why is it always Springsteen, and at this level of stadium rock and record sales, only Springsteen, who expresses rage against the political sharks, investment vultures, and war hawks– those thieving, oil-stealing, money laundering, drug peddling, arms dealing, tax evading criminals —who have stolen the very hearts and futures of the middle class, Machiavelli-style, and aimed their poison-tipped arrows at the middle class workers themselves? Where are the singers and students who should be stirring the already muddy waters and agitating the weary masses to rail against the very inquisi...