TEN YEARS AFTER
On the sunny, balmy Monday this was released, the local deejays said, absenteeism in San Francisco broke all records, as tens of thousands of otherwise loyal employees called in sick so they could get in record shop lines to buy it and then go to the beach or Golden Gate Park to spend the day digging it.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND Live/1975-85 (Columbia)
by John Mendelssohn
On the sunny, balmy Monday this was released, the local deejays said, absenteeism in San Francisco broke all records, as tens of thousands of otherwise loyal employees called in sick so they could get in record shop lines to buy it and then go to the beach or Golden Gate Park to spend the day digging it. Shortly thereafter, National Public Radio reported that, except for the balminess, beach, and Park, the pattern was identical across the land. Excitement over a record album’s release hadn’t been so nearly universal since Sgt. Pepper reached the racks on the first day of June, 1967.