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Man on the people:  "Hungry Heart" Copps Coliseum in Hamilton was built in the 1980s in the hopes that the city would land an National Hockey League franchise.  Nonetheless, its style is more reminiscent of older arenas:  It has only a single main concourse from which both the upper and lower bowls enter; also there are only a dozen small luxury boxes, with no glass separating them from the action.  The kind of place where the sound is loud and it gets sweaty.  In short, Bruce Springsteen's kind of place. Crowd Surfing during "Hungry Heart When Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band took the stage to the theme from "The Magnificent Seven," Bruce appeared determined to conquer this part of Ontario -- just as they had a couple months earlier in nearby Toronto.  The band launched in to a blistering version of My Love Will Not Let You Down, with the house lights on for much of the number.  Bruce followed with a pair of songs ...

Forward, and Away We Go!!! In an interview for the UK paper  The Guardian  in February 2012, Bruce Springsteen said, "I campaigned for Kerry and Obama, and I am glad I did. But normally I would prefer to stay on the sidelines. The artist is supposed to be the canary in the cage."  When he reviewed Obama's performance at that time, his response was measured:  "He kept General Motors alive, he got through healthcare – though not the public system I would have wanted – he killed Osama Bin Laden, and he brought sanity to the top level of government. But big business still has too much say in government and there has not been as many middle- or working-class voices in the administration as I expected. I thought Guantanamo would have been closed but now, but he got us out of Iraq and I guess we will soon be out of Afghanistan." That was then.  That was before Obama had an opponent in the general election, one who opposed the very things that Springsteen praise...