BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - SPRINGSTEEN HONOURED BY NEW JERSEY MUSEUM

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has been honoured in his native New Jersey with a major exhibition to mark his career so far.

The rock legend, 54, is being honoured at the Newark Museum in SPRINGSTEEN: TROUBADOUR OF THE HIGHWAY - which looks at the singer's musical and visual use of automobiles and the highway as metaphors of American life.

Project director BECKY SCHUTT admits it is unusual to hold an exhibition in homage to a living rock star.

She explains, "But we are looking at him as an artist and chronicling him for the past 30 years.

"He traveled the highways of America, and he sings about the highway both physically and metaphorically."

Museum director MARY SUE SWEENEY PRICE adds, "This exhibition had to come to New Jersey, which has more Springsteen fans per square mile than any place in the world."

Museum visitor ANTOINETTE RINALDI says of Springsteen, "I think his lyrics are the SHAKESPEARE of our times.

"He speaks from the heart."