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Michaud: Bruce Springsteen sheds light on depression

August 1, 2012 6:19 PM By ANNE MICHAUD

Musician Bruce Springsteen performs with the E Street

Photo credit: AP | Musician Bruce Springsteen performs with the E Street Band during a concert in Los Angeles. (April 26, 2012)

Anne Michaud

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With its 140-character limit, Twitter is anything but subtle. A tweet from a recent 19-page New Yorker profile of Bruce Springsteen focused on just one thing: his admission that he's suffered depression.

It's startling that a person so fabulously successful could have been depressed. Even more surprising, depression hit after his breakthrough commercial album "Born to Run" in 1975.

The...

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