Since time immemorial, people have attempted to cope with powerful and terrifying feelings by doing things that contradict perceptions of fear and helplessness: religious rituals, theater, dance, music, meditation and

When I spoke to Daniel Cavicchi, it had been more than twenty years since he’d interviewed the Springsteen fans. I asked him what he remembered as the most common thread throughout their accounts of loving Bruce, and he told me: “It wasn’t strange and bizarre, it wasn’t twisting people up. I found that it was actually doing the opposite. It was