Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

** spoiler alert ** I’ve been attending Springsteen and the E Street Band concerts since 1975. I haven’t missed one tour. I say this because I was looking forward to learn more about Steven and his relationships with the band members and some anecdotes from touring. I got none of it. Steven writes about how he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread and if all these people didn’t shelve his records and ideas, they would have become major stars with monster hits. He comes across as passive aggressive when it comes to his relationship with Bruce - he even mentions a “band leader and writer of most of the band’s songs” should give the other band members a percent of the publishing rights - “ it wouldn’t kill them” He comes across as cocky and whiny. Most of the book is about his non-E Street Band endeavors. Chapter after chapter he wants us to know all the things he’s done but never got the credit for… He even goes as far as saying that if he hadn’t quit the band at the time he did, maybe Bruce doesn’t marry Patti and never has his three beautiful children. He even complains that because he wasn’t making any big money since he quit the band, he couldn’t afford to have children- I kid you not! Did you know Steven was responsible for apartheid ending in South Africa possibly 10 years earlier due his Sun City record? Wow - what an ego! I did find his stories of meeting revolutionaries interesting as well as some of the sopranos and Lilyhammer back round interesting as well. Other sections on the various bands that defined each decade was educational. And I do applaud his work to get art and music integrated into multiple curriculum in schools. Overall, this is a guy who wants us to know he’s as talented, if not more so than Mr. Springsteen - whom casts a large shadow over him. Little Steven, your are not Bruce Springsteen and never will be…