Non-Album of the Year?

Hey, Bob! What’s the deal? All of Page 3 plus 86 column inches of type--a groaning grand total of about 3,500 words--about the album Bruce Springsteen didn’t make in 1991 (“Hey, Bruce! What’s the Deal?” by Robert Hilburn, Dec. 29)?

We poor schmoes on the receiving end of your tunnel-vision infatuation with Springsteen, U2, Tracy Chapman, Sinead O’Connor and--God spare us--rap can only cringe in anticipation of what’s on your non-story agenda for 1992.

Hey, Bob! Get real! (And have a nice year.)

JACK MANCHESTER

Lakewood