You can hear Bruce Springsteen’s new album “Working On A Dream” – and download new track “Life Itself” from that same album – all this week here on The Ticket.

While we patiently wait for Bruce to say yes to an interview if – and I said “if” not “when”, people – he comes to town in 2009, here’s what he had to say to Mark Hagen in yesterday’s Observer Music Monthly.

Pic below of Springsteen singing “The Rising” with a gospel choir at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC yesterday (taken by Doug Mills, New York Times)