Springsteen and The E Street Band started an eight-date Canadian tour last night in Montreal, opening the show with a cover of Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters” in celebration of Halloween.
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Bruce Springsteen says there are two sides to him -- an introvert and an extrovert.
“Introversion is a funny thing,” he tells the BBC. “There's a yin and a yang to it.
“On my own, I can be very internal. I've written a lot of internal music - Darkness on the Edge of Town, Nebraska, parts of The River - all about people who live these very intense, borderline violent, internal lives.
“But the joyful side of me, which I got from my mother, allows me to sing 'Rosalita' and 'Born to Run' and 'Hungry Heart'.
"I'm Irish-Italian, so I got the blues and I got the joy at the same time.”
His extrovert side was a complete surprise to his friend of 60 years, bandmate Steve Van Zandt.
“His first two records didn’t do well. Record companies were ready to drop him. His only dream was about to die.
"So my very shy friend reaches inside and says, ‘I'll put the guitar down and start fronting the band', which is huge move, right? Because the guitar's a defense, it’s actually a wall between you and your audience. So he had to put that away and learn a whole new craft...
"And all of a sudden, he’s dancing on the tables [in 1975 at The Bottom Line club in New York]. I’m like, ‘Wow, where'd that come from?’
“I think it was sort of a defensive urge, like, ‘You're not going to stop me’.”
In the BBC interview, Springsteen also divulged that not only does his wife, Patti Scialfa, a rare form of blood cancer known as multiple myeloma, but she also needs a shoulder and hip replacements, which he says, "makes it very difficult for her to get out and get around.
“But she's made a beautiful new record that'll be coming out, hopefully, this year. And we’ve been married for 34 years. I love her to death.”