We sit down with The Boss: Bruce Springsteen and present him with a packet of Tayto crisps!
In our exclusive interview, Springsteen says choosing a song he wished he’d written was “easy.”
“Well, Fairytale of New York is a pretty, beautiful song… Rainy Night In Soho, incredibly gorgeous… Body Of An American. So I’m talking a lot of Shane here, but because he was one of the great, great writers of the past half century… all of those songs were just wonderful, wonderful songs,” said Bruce.
The man who has sold more than 140 million records around the globe has a family lineage of Irish, Dutch, Italian and American, but told us he has a particularly strong connection with Ireland.
“The reason I’m very connected to the Irish is because I was brought up by very old country Irish people. They lived on a farm. They moved into town. We had the first church service and the first funeral in our house. We had five houses on the block all filled with Irish and one Italian outpost, you know.”
“And so I was really brought up by the Irish side, and I think that’s where the introversion and certain part of my material comes from. But then I was also brought up around the Italians a lot, and they gave me a certain innate joyfulness that I think, if you come and see the band and people cracking jokes and having fun on stage… my mother’s influence, Italian influence, is there pretty distinctly. What the Dutch does? I’m not exactly sure. It just adds a little spice to everything, I guess. And there we are.”
