Bruce Springsteen, 75, reveals when he’ll retire from touring: ‘That will be it for me’

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Bruce Springsteen has a hungry heart for the stage.The singer, who turned 75 in September, has been performing sold-out arena around the world for close to half a century.

And the 20-time Grammy winner has no plans to stop anytime soon. “You’ve never seen a hearse with luggage on top, so that will be it for me,” the Boss declared during the Friday episode of British chat show “The Graham Norton Show. “I am going to keep going until it’s over,” he added saying he’ll continue to perform until he dies.

Springsteen, who released his new documentary “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” last month, revealed that he is still prone to some stage fright despite decades of experience. “I get anticipatory anxiety,” the New Jersey native confessed. “It’s not quite the same thing as nervousness.

It’s a natural feeling to have before you go out to challenge yourself. If it wasn’t there, I think there would be something wrong with you, and you couldn’t do the job.”It’s something fans may see explored in the upcoming Bruce biopic “Deliver Me from Nowhere” in which Jeremy Allen White is set to play the rocker.The film will follow Springsteen after the release of the 1980 album “The River”as he works on his stripped-down 1982 follow-up, “Nebraska.”Springsteen praised the film’s “lovely cast” and told Norton, 61, he’s “involved a little in the project.”The Boss was even encouraging when it came to White, 33, stepping into his boots.“This is not easy to do because you can’t do an imitation, you have to do a personal interpretation,” Springsteen explained. “It’s difficult, but he is a great actor and sings pretty good.”“The Bear” star recently gushed over the musician being “really supportive of the film” in an August.