BRUCEY BONUS

BRUCEY BONUS

A belated response to your Bruce Springsteen article (RC 329). Firstly, I am not sure whether real picture sleeves of the mis-pressed Sherry Darling/Independence Day actually exist. I know the former product manager at CBS at the time and he doubts it. What I do have, which he gave me, is proof of the single sleeve in uncut form (a colour proof before the sleeve was cut out from the cardboard to be folded and glued into a sleeve). I seem to remember he said something like, “You might as well have this - it’s not coming out now”, which would also suggest that the sleeves never actually got made.

Secondly, I have the Born To Run advance package, and while it does not have lyric sheets, it does have a label copy photocopied sheet, containing details of all the tracks, publishers and sleeve credits. Interestingly, at that point The Heist had become Meeting Across The River even though, as you state, the enclosed post card still has it called the former.

I am intrigued though why you say the sleeve was marked “SCRIPT”. It’s nowhere on my copy - it’s just that the typeface used was in script, not the one that was released.

by Jon Webster, London
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