Young Bruce Springsteen: Butcher, Baker, Booty Shaker?Bruce Springsteen's mother, who thought her young son should become an author, was not impressed when he announced his desire to play guitar.
"My mother - she's very Italian - she says, 'This is a big thing. You should go see the priest,'" he recalled. An obedient son, Bruce went to the rectory and knocked on the door:
"Hi, Father Ray, I'm Mr. Springsteen's son," he said. "I got this problem. My father thinks I should be a lawyer, and my mother, she wants me to be an author. But I got this guitar."
"This is too big a deal for me," Father Ray replied. "You gotta talk to God... Tell him about the lawyer and the author," he then advised, "but don't say nothin' about that guitar!"
[Springsteen was a handful growing up. He was knocked over by a priest for being a bad altar boy, stuffed in a garbage can by a nun, and smoked out of his room by his father for playing loud music.]
[Trivia: Among the lectures presented at Seattle's Pop Conference 2003? "Bruce's Butt" — a scholarly examination of Bruce Springsteen's butt, as seen on the cover of Born in the U.S.A..]
Springsteen, Bruce ["The Boss"] (1949- ) American musician [noted for such
works as Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973), The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle (1973), Born to Run (1975), Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978), The River (1980), Nebraska (1982), Born in the U.S.A. (1984), Tunnel of Love (1987), Human Touch (1992), Lucky Town (1992), and
The Rising (2002)]
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