I was at a Bruce Springsteen concert watching him play with the E Street Band. Out of nowhere, he transformed into a Sailor Moon type magical girl and then played Born In the USA.
Bruce Springsteen releases the album Born In The U.S.A. The cover photo, showing Bruce posed in front of the American flag, gives many the wrong idea about the title track, which is about the struggles of a veteran returning home from the Vietnam War.
"We all briefly became drug addicts on this [album]. Except Bruce. He was the only guy I knew who never did drugs. He had his own vice, which was mentally beating the shit out of himself."
- Steve Van Zandt on the making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, from Unrequited Infatuations, 2021