A contradiction born in the USA

MUCH of Bruce Springsteen’s new album, ‘The Rising,’ is about the heroism of firefighters and ordinary New Yorkers on September 11 last year.

I wonder how many such people could afford to pay the 75 charge (plus the usual plethora of exorbitant booking fees) for his Lansdowne Road gig next summer. It's all very well for The Boss to sing about working class people struggling to get by, AIDS victims and underpaid firefighters but does he know that his agents don't want any of them at his concert?

Seamus Lynch,