Taylor Swift was in the news this week. Young as she is, it has almost been twenty years since her eponymous debut album. This week’s attention though is on Bruce Springsteen, whose breakthrough album was released fifty years ago last Monday.

Fifty years on and Springsteen is still hard at it; he was touring Canada last year at the same time as Swift. And two months ago he releaseds s new albums all at once. Over more than a half-century of songwriting, he had written and recorded so much material, unused for one reason or the other, that at age 75 he released in one day what for many others would be the work of a career.

The seven new albums are extensions of what Springsteen has been singing about for five decades — there are songs that sound like versions of his greatest hits, which

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