1980s

By now, you may have heard about the New Yorker profile of Bruce Springsteen in which the now 62-year-old rocker talks about -- gasp! -- suffering from depression. The admission has swiftly been making the media rounds, because I guess it's not every day that a symbol of good old-fashioned American working-class masculinity admits to something as unmanly as mental illness. And depression at that! Oh my. Generally when our rock stars have psychiatric problems, we like it to be something sexy, like drug addiction.