At one point, he stepped up to the mic and took some time for David Bowie, the bedrock fable who anesthetized abroad on Monday, January 8.
"Not actual abounding humans apperceive this but he accurate our music way, way in the very, actual beginning. 1973. He rang me up and I visited him in Philly while he was authoritative the Adolescent Americans record*. He covered my music, 'Hard to be a Saint in the City' ... I took the Greyhound bus to Philadelphia, that's how aboriginal it was," Springsteen said.
He again launched into "Rebel Rebel" from 1974's Diamond Dogs.
In accession to "Hard to be a Saint in the City," Bowie aswell recorded "Growing Up," which was appear on a 1990 re-release of Pin Ups.
Then WMMR DJ Ed Sciaky, an aboriginal Springsteen supporter, fabricated the affair amid the two happen. Springsteen didn't accept a abode to breach so he slept on Sciaky's couch. During the time Bowie was recording Adolescent Americans (late '74, aboriginal '75), Springsteen was just advancing off the one-two bite of Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ and The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle. Born to Run, Springsteen's breach out, was appear in August of 1975.
In the liner addendum to One Step Up / Two Steps Back: The Songs Of Bruce Springsteen, a Springsteen accolade album, Bowie wrote, "Springsteen came down to apprehend what we were accomplishing with his stuff. He was actual shy. I bethink sitting in the aisle with him, talking about his lifestyle, which was a actual Dylanesque – you know, affective from boondocks to boondocks with a guitar on his back, all that affectionate of thing. Anyway, he didn't like what we were doing, I bethink that. At least, he didn't accurate abundant enthusiasm. I assumption he accept to accept anticipation it was all affectionate of odd. I was in addition cosmos at the time. I've got this abnormally aberrant photograph of us all – I attending like I'm fabricated out of wax."
Director Cameron Crowe reminisced about a agnate time aeon while speaking about Bowie at the Television Critics Association. "He was consistently bedeviled with music and art and never the business. It was consistently a adolescent artisan had confused him. He would ability out to that artist. Bruce Springsteen was somebody that bent his absorption on the aboriginal album. He was talking about Bruce Springsteen in ... aboriginal stages of Bruce Springsteen's career."
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