When most people think “Bruce Springsteen,” the image that likely springs to mind for the average person is the Springsteen from 1984/5, at the height of “Born in the USA”’s stratospheric success, a guy in blue jeans and a white T-shirt with a bandanna around his head performing non-stop hits in front of a massive stadium crowd.

That Bruce Springsteen wouldn’t have existed without the one we meet in the new biopic from director Scott Cooper, “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” released October 24. Almost everything that Bruce — portrayed by Jeremy Allen White of “The Bear” fame — goes through is a reasonably accurate account of what actually happened in this era, when Springsteen was wrestling with the fame he worked so hard to pursue, and needing to decide whether or not he wanted to

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