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Fri 06 Jun 2007Bruce almightyIt might be hard to believe now, but there was a time when Bruce Springsteen was seriously uncool. As he releases his Live in Dublin album, recorded at the Point last November, Jim Carrolllooks at how a New Jersey icon has become a towering musical influence againSomewhere in deepest New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen is probably chuckling away to himself. Every time he goes into a record store these days - and he's still an avid music buyer by all accounts - he hears something on the sound system which reminds him of his own glory days.