Bruce Springsteen idolized these Jersey brothers - then one was killed in Vietnam
(WorldNews Music)

By Ian Shapira | The Washington Post Halfway through Bruce Springsteen’s solo act on Broadway, the Boss reminisces about two bar-band rockers he idolized in New Jersey in the 1960s. Walter and Raymond Cichon were the frontman and lead guitarist of a band called the Motifs. “They were gods,� Springsteen tells the audience. On Walter: “On stage, he was deadly, and he was aloof and raw and sexual and dangerous.� On Raymond: “Raymond was my guitar hero.� But the memories about a pair of little-known musicians takes a sorrowful turn: Walter was killed in 1968 in the Vietnam War, a disclosure that, following such loving tributes, prompted slight gasps in...