If he got the gig, Fontayne's job would be to (attempt to, really) fill the shoes of Springsteen's longtime six-string sidekicks, Stevie Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren. Though a tall order ...

‘In the mere sight of an old pair of shoes there is something profoundly melancholy’, wrote Flaubert to Louise Colet in 1846. Vincent van Gogh may have had Flaubert’s letter in mind (as well as a ...