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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN TALKS about his battle with depression and how he has sought relief in his new autobiography, Born to Run.
The singer opens up about his recent struggles, revealing how the recording of his 2012 album – Wrecking Ball – was one of his lowest points, but his bandmates were none the wiser.
“I was crushed between sixty and sixty-two, good for a year and out again from sixty-three to sixty-four.”
In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine Springsteen said, “I knew I was gonna ‘go there’ in the book”.
He described how, when he isn’t well, his wife Patti Scialfa gets him to the doctors and says, ‘This man needs a pill’.
Patti will observe a freight train bearing down, loaded with nitroglycerin and running quickly out of track.
Springsteen also addresses his relationship with his father – describing how his dad also struggled with depression. However, he says he has now overcome the issues he had with his father.
In the book he recalls his dad, Doug Springsteen, impromptly driving 400 miles to his son’s home in LA before the birth of Bruce’s first child.
Over beers his father said, “Bruce, you’ve been very good to us … and I wasn’t very good to you.”
Springsteen writes, “That was it … It was all that I needed, all that was necessary.”
Discussing the 500-page memoir in Vanity Fair, the singer and songwriter said:
One of the points I’m making in the book is that, whoever you’ve been and wherever you’ve been, it never leaves you.
“I always picture it as a car. All your selves are in it. And a new self can get in, but the old selves can’t ever get out. The important thing is, who’s got their hands on the wheel at any given moment?”
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We got lucky this time thankfully.
@Declan Gibney: may not be lucky next time.Time to stock up the freezer.Could be a big run in bread.
@Willie Marty: And toilet paper!
@Nickb: lol and vaseline
Lol certainly not although some lads on here might need the vaseline or bonjella for the lips after all the (mouthing) talking they do.
The weather forecasters are on high alert as they can’t pronounce Ciarán
@Patrick Presley: racist and silly comment
@SF Means Sh!t 4 Free: yes, wondering same as you, how is this racist?
Actually made me smile, I wonder how they’ll pronounce Ciarán over there…
Serious storm though
@Jerry LeFrog: actually just saw a YT video, they pronounce it correctly with a French twist “Keeranne”
@Ger Byrne: Uneducated. Should not be allowed anywhere near a device that can connect to the internet.
Eurostar what a great achievement and here we can’t put down one piece of railway track but only greenaways, not even a railways service to our busiest airport.
@Leonard Barry: and now over to met eireann for the latest weather forecast
Oh look,we can comment on rainfall abroad; I’d say that innocuous enough.
@Marie Power: And you took the opportunity to write, “I’d say that innocuous enough.”
@James Carroll: I know James, apologies; it should have read:’ I’d say that’s innocuous etc’.
Hopefully it doesn’t do any damage to England or France
Hope the French are ok
I know that the north of France is getting the brunt, but we have gusts of up to 100km here in the south east. Windy enough, especially with a huge tree near us that, while the core may be structurally sound, it frequently loses heavy branches in high winds.
@David Stapleton: them branches can weigh a ton or more. Serious business.
@David Stapleton: well it is certainly good for business David – I am in the East and I have been trying to get various companies to come out and look at a tree that needs to be cut as it is a bit too near power/phone lines and might cause some harm next time. Numerous calls later to different companies and “we call out tomorrow, next week” etc and weeks later still waiting.
We need emergency flood relief pipes, sunk on to major river beds and overflow risers connected to them. Run it from flood areas, with major rivers and out to a slipway at the coast or too a reservoir or hydro battery for generating power at night.
Biden has called for a humanitarian pause in bombing Gaza after being heckled. The Man is no leader
Thankfully Michael D can still voice the truth Collective punishment of innocent men women and children in Gaza is an absolute violation of every moral political and humaniti and humanitarian laws A clear crime by an invading force into an already desperate country .Shame on Israel now the world can see this government for what it is
The usual nonsense from Limerick’s hanging judge (everything suspended) when dealing with hurler Pat Ryan. How, in God’s name does that pointless wig still have a job? What a waste of time, police resources, taxpayers’ money, and all to produce an empty, meaningless sentence. On and on it goes.
Wind power bonanza.
The Dutch super slow bike race faded out like a damp squib
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