Reading Bruce Springsteen's memoir-cum-autobiography Born To Run I was taken aback by his references to the periods of depression he has suffered, and particularly those that blighted his life in his early 60s. But isn't it odd I should have been surprised? Given the intensity of so much of his work it isn't difficult to see how this might be linked to trying to deal with deep-rooted psychological issues. It really made little sense for me to assume a kind of stereotypical trajectory for the great man's life, with him passing gently into comfortable, fulfilled, secure later years, all passion spent.
I suspect we're none of us stereotypical and any outward appearance of such masks engagingly messy quirky individuality, making us all the richer, all the more surprising.
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