This week’s LP is a Glimpse of Bruce Springsteen’s The River

... and the time I bumped into Bruce Springsteen on the seafront in Brighton

As for many people, my introduction to Bruce Springsteen was in 1975 with Born to Run on a 7-inch single; for me, it was an exciting record with a unique sound that came out of nowhere. Buying the single, rapidly followed by the album, represented a move away from the diet of prog rock I was setting into. I played the Born to Run album constantly, and w…