When I met Patti Smith soon after Donald Trump’s first victory, she said she’d ended up next to him at various New York dinners over the years, back in the ’70s, when he was pitching Trump Towers. “We were born in the same year, and I have to look at this person and think: all our hopes and dreams from childhood, going through the ’60s, everything we went through – and that’s what came out of our generation. Him.”

Smith’s sing-song voice was in my head at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool on one of the final nights of Bruce Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams tour. Springsteen was born three years after Trump and will also have sat at many New York dinners with him. Those with half an eye on the news would be forgiven for thinking that Bruce has been lobbing disses at the president from the stage between his hits, but his latest show is heavier than that: a conscious recasting of two decades of his more politicised music, with a four-minute incitement to revolution in the middle. Here is a bit of what he says:

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