The Hit Farm

A big part of my serious Bruce Springsteen enthusiasm will always be associated with my dad. Growing up, Pops had all his records and played them often on the living room stereo. In November 1986, Dad came home with The Boss' sprawling new box set The saxophone player passed away Saturday after recently suffering a [...]

Clarence Clemons, E Street Band saxophonist who played alongside Bruce Springsteen for nearly four decades, died on Saturday of complications from a stroke. In more than three decades wielding his tenor sax with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, from its beginning in 1972 to his death at 69 on Saturday, Clarence Clemons was as much [...]

He was the 'Big Man' that Bruce Springsteen leaned on, both figuratively and literally, to provide the soul and heart of the legendary E Street. Tragic news from E Street: After suffering a severe stroke last Sunday (June 12), legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemons — who, for four decades, faithfully served as the face of Bruce [...]

Clarence Clemons has indeed suffered a "serious stroke," Bruce Springsteen wrote on his website Tuesday, the first on-the-record acknowledgement of anonymously sourced news that broke Sunday after the saxophone player took ill at his Florida home. In the summer of 1971, when an ambitious Shore rat named Bruce Springsteen was playing at an Asbury Park [...]

saying prayers for legendary, magnificent saxophone star of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band NEW YORK — Saxophonist Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band has suffered a stroke. But rock star Bruce Springsteen made it famous more than two decades ago. On Oct. 1, 1989, Springsteen was traveling through Prescott on his motorcycle and [...]

But rock star Bruce Springsteen made it famous more than two decades ago. On Oct. 1, 1989, Springsteen was traveling through Prescott on his motorcycle and stopped at the bar for a beer. At that time in the afternoon, not many people were in the saloon [LA Times] Clarence Clemons suffers stroke: The saxophonist, a [...]