Bruce Springsteen’s first visit to London “was a little disconcerting”. The 74-year-old singer was awarded an Academy Fellowship at the Ivor Novello Awards on Thursday (23.05.24), and during his acceptance speech, Springsteen reflected on his relationship with the UK. The ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ hitmaker – who first visited London in 1975 – said: “The airplane food was not so great, and my first thought when we landed at Heathrow was, ‘Where’s all the cheeseburgers?’ “The cheeseburgers had either been hidden or replaced by something called fish and chips. It was a little disconcerting. “Then our …