Speaking about Springsteen and Steve Harley, Khalekan, here is something that might interest you :
starling.rinet.ru/music/cockney.htm
Sometimes, it's quiet funny to read.
Rebel will be pleased by what is written about Death Trip.
I am surely pleased with what is written about The Psychomodo ("The Psychic Quasimodo" ? The guy seems to say that's what it means ! I did not know !).
Here is a statement that express better than I did my own feelings about Stranger (I precise I found this website AFTER I did write my feelings about Stranger) :
"As the years would go by, eventually the seriousness of the tone and the lyrics would overshadow the music itself (particularly on Steve's "pure" solo albums)".