Using some money I got for Christmas/Birthday on the 25th, I bought the recently released Springsteen "The River" Boxset collection yesterday for a cool £70 from Fopp Records in Rose Street, so it will come as no surprise to anyone that I have been listening/watching much of that over the last day or so. Originally released in 1979, this was the album that turned me into a Boss afficionado some 33 years ago and it's still my favourite album of all time all these years later. The boxset has a remastered version of the album, a copy of the original single album he done before going back to the studio and recording more songs for the double album the River became, some fabulous outtakes from the album, a documentary on the making of the record, and best of all over 2 and a half hours of phenomenal live footage from a show in Tempe, Arizona from November 1980 on the River tour. An edited version was shown on BBC4 just before Christmas.
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