Thankful Bruce Springsteen gushes over wife Patti Scialfa and the E Street Band: ‘You’re not alone’
nypost.comhas been battling multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, since 2018.Onstage after the screening with Stevie Van Zandt, music producer Jon Landau and director Thom Zimny, Springsteen said that the unwavering support of Scialfa and the E Street Band are what make it possible for him to be a frontman.“You’re not alone,” Springsteen, 74, said. “I can look to my left, Stevie’s there.
To my right, Nils [Lofgren] is there. When Patti’s able to make it, I can see her there.”The Boss added: “I can look around and see Jake [Clemons].
When I see Jake, I see Jake, but I also see Clarence [Clemons]. Roy [Bittan], Max [Weinberg]. So I’m not alone.”Springsteen reflected touchingly to the sold-out crowd at the Roy Thompson Hall about his more than five decades of playing with his wife, friends and bandmates. “You’ve gotta understand — we’ve got the only job where the people you went to high school with, at 75, you’re still with those people,” he said. “You live your life with them.
You see them grow up, you see them get married, you see them get divorced, you see them go to jail, you see them get out of jail, you see them renege on their child payments, you see them fail, you see them get old, you see their hair grow gray and you’re in the room when they die.”The E Street Band was formed in 1972, and Springsteen said it’s shocking they’re still together so many years later.“Bands break up.
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