Bruce Springsteen hasn’t had the best of luck lately. While everyone from Bob Dylan to Alanis Morissette has made heaps of cash by exclusively selling their records in branches of Starbucks, Bruce is the only big name star to actually have his music banned from the coffee chain.

So, to cheer him up (and probably his bank manager too), Springsteen is planning to get back into the big league by announcing a 30th anniversary re-release of Born To Run.

Bruce Springsteen (CDs) might have guessed that his last album, Devils &
Dust, would get him in trouble with Starbucks. While the caffeine-heads
wanted to hear the big, flag-waving anthems that made Bruce famous, he
instead decided to fill the album with songs about having bum sex with
hookers. The song Reno in particular, with it’s
"Two hundred dollars straight in, two-fifty up the ass," lyric, was possibly to blame.

For
the first time in his career, Bruce found himself marginalised as a
sort of old bum sex pervert, and not the all-American hero he once was.
Luckily for him, this year happens to be the 30th anniversary of Born
To Run, Springsteen’s breakout album, and apparently the 27th best
album of all time.

So, obviously, by plonking out a re-release
of Born To Run, Bruce can reaffirm himself as a man of the people. As
well as the original album, the re-release comes complete with a
full-length surround sound DVD of a 1975 Hammersmith Odeon concert, and
a 90-minute documentary on the making of Born To Run, and the
previously unheard track I Like Putting My Winky Up Ladys’ Bumbums.

OK, we made that last bit up.