January 5, 1973, marked the arrival of a new voice in American rock music when Bruce Springsteen released his debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. The record introduced Springsteen’s dense, poetic songwriting and street-level storytelling, but ...

First of all, let's dispense with some Bruce Springsteen mythology: It is a fallacy that all his concerts last three hours. Opening a fresh tour Tuesday night at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Springsteen and the E Street Band turned in a performance that lasted exactly 2 hours and 54 minutes,