Bruce Springsteen was on CBS Sunday Morning this weekend, plugging a new book, but not one that he wrote.
Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, by Warren Zanes, guitarist in The Del Fuegos, will be published on Tuesday. And Springsteen, sitting in the bedroom of the Colts Neck, New Jersey house where he wrote and recorded the album (from December 17th, 1981 to January 3rd, 1982), says, "If I had to pick out one album and say, ‘This is going to represent you 50 years from now,’ I’d pick Nebraska...
“I think in your 20s, a lot of things work for you. But in your 30s [it's] where you start to become an adult. And suddenly I looked around and said, ‘Where is everything? Where is my home? Where is my partner? Where are the sons and daughters that I thought I might have someday?’… I realized none of those things are there, none of them.
“So I said, ‘OK, the first thing I’ve gotta do as soon as I get home is remind myself of who I am and where I came from…and what I want to do…and where I’m going.’”
In other Springsteen news, he started the European leg of of his tour with The E Street Band Friday in Barcelona, Spain.
He did the tour premiere of "Human Touch," which he hadn't performed since 2016, and he was joined on "Glory Days" by Michelle Obama and Kate Capshaw, wife of director Steven Spielberg.
On Thursday, Bruce and his wife Patti Scialfa hit the town with President Obama and Michelle, and the Spielbergs.
Springsteen and Obama did an eight-part podcast series in 2021, Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., and Springsteen and the Spielbergs have been friends for many years, often vacationing together.
Springsteen did a second night in Barcelona last night before moving onto Dublin on Friday.