Some of His More Famous Fans
Bruce Springsteen has fans in some high up places. Take Barack Obama, for example, who said once that there are “a handful of people who enter into your lives through their music and tell the American people’s story. Bruce Springsteen is one of those people.” Obama, with his loveable sense of humor, said that he ran for President only because he couldn’t be Bruce Springsteen.
Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Bruce Springsteen, Photo By Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock
Another major fan was the late Joe Strummer. Clash’s frontman was asked about Springsteen for a TV documentary from the mid-‘90s and responded with a quote that said, among other things, “Bruce is great. If you don’t agree with that, you’re a pretentious Martian from Venus,” and then “The DJ puts on ‘Racing in the Streets’ and life seems worth living again.”