Bruce Springsteen at the Frankfurt book fair, The “Boss” to look back … – MDR

written Seven years of Bruce Springsteen in his autobiography, “Born to Run”. At the Frankfurt book fair in the U.S.-Rockstar has presented personally to the work. The “Boss voice” with a lot of openness and self-irony about his life and about his depression. “I’ve been doing for the past 30 years of psycho-analysis, my first doctor died,” he said, laughing. The depression, he got in his Irish blood passed from the paternal side.

Childhood in poor conditions

The vocalist of the Evergreens “Born in the USA”, with which he processed in 1984 critical of the Vietnam war, describes in the book his Childhood in poor circumstances in Freehold in the U.S. state of New Jersey. This had been shaped by fear of the father led the life of a fickle Work, to struggle with alcohol and mental health problems had and it was only as an old man his transgressions against his son admitted. However, the “Boss” is conciliatory. “Our history is so much more complicated, not in the Details of what happened, but the Why of it All”, so the Mittsechziger.

On the question of how his Italian-born mother, Adele, on the more than 600-page long autobiography, have responded, said Springsteen: “she is suffering severely from Alzheimer’s, but she always wanted to, that I will author. I think it would have been like you.” In some answers, the acclaimed Songwriter closed his eyes.

a dream from the “Rolling Stones”front man

but There were also many humorous moments. So Springsteen made the text passage, as the Boy dreamed next door with acne that Mick Jagger is ill and he can fill in for him at the Rolling Stones. He also told how he was in Hamburg, his first Germany concert, and him, Pete Townshend of The Who had previously warned: “Germany has the worst audience in the world. And still impressed with Springsteen remembers his appearance in 1988 in front of 160,000 spectators in East Berlin, as a “hand-made American flags in East Berlin, the Wind blew”.

Under the strictest secrecy

The reading will take place under the strictest secrecy. More than 100 guests from all over Europe were loaded. They had to keep the name of the hotel. In the short term, the Springsteen Management had prohibited to make audio recordings of the moderated call. With his engaging manner and his self-irony of the world star was all PR hype but quickly forgotten. To bid farewell to the “Boss” of his index finger in the air, spun – like after one of his concerts, called “Whohoo” and disappeared casually out of the side door.