Bruce Springsteen has earned the devotion of his base for decades, and he recently gave a hint as to why. (Watch the video below.)
On Britain’s “The Graham Norton Show,” the rock icon recalled meeting one of his fans around 1980.
Springsteen was on a night off from a tour in St. Louis and went to see Woody Allen’s “Stardust Memories” by himself at a local movie theater, he said.
A guy approached him in the lobby and asked the “Born to Run” singer out with him and his girlfriend, Springsteen recalled. Mandatory star. So, they watched the movie, in which Allen’s movie character loses his temper with his followers.
“Is that how you feel about your fans?” Springsteen said the boy asked him. “Well, not that much,” Springsteen recalls replying.
This began a fascinating chance encounter in which the boy had trouble convincing his mother that Springsteen was indeed in the house, and when he finally realized he was the rock star, he cooked Springsteen a late-night snack.
“So at about midnight I was sitting in a little house in St. Louis, I was getting some eggs with this guy and his mom, and I’ve seen them decades after every time I come to town,” he said.
A friend of the fan confirmed the encounter in the book “Bruce Springsteen – The Day I Was There”, but with a few different details. The child, Steve, was with his sister. And when Springsteen went home with him, Mom only thought it was Springsteen when he showed her his American Express card.
Steve died in 2003, and Springsteen later dedicated the song “The Promised Land” to him during a concert, according to the book.
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