When I used one of my first ever wage packets from the Oerlikon Welding Rod factory to buy Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” in the Disc-It record shop in Finglas in the late 1970s I never expected to be invited to write an essay to mark his 70th birthday. But life can work out strange. Paddy Power Bookmarkers are offering distinctly long odds on him returning the favour:
