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| Autographed copy of LIVE on Coral Records, the bootleg LP at the center of the 1976 lawsuit, shown with reference copies of reports from the August 14 and August 21 issues of Billboard (article text obscured; see 08/15/2016 for details). |
It has somehow been almost six months since my last blog post. Over the past few months, as has happened from time to time before, I have been—and still am—extremely busy with my job. This time, however, the workload was heavier than usual, which largely explains the long silence on this blog (yes, I’m still working and haven’t retired yet). Fortunately, I have no shortage of material to write about; I have simply reached a point where I can catch my breath and finally resume posting.
Recently, two very different things brought me back to the mid-1970s, the period around Springsteen’s first national breakthrough in the U.S.
