Clarence Clemons and Bruce Springsteen spoke about each other with a level of love and tenderness that is not only rare in male friendships, but in platonic relationships as a whole. They acknowledged ...
ASBURY PARK – On Sunday afternoon, Clarence Clemons packed The Stone Pony one last time. The legendary club on Ocean Avenue held an informal memorial gathering in honor of Clemons, the iconic ...
Clemons’ entry into the E Street Band is the stuff of rock mythology. As the story goes, Clemons nearly broke down a door at a club in Asbury before begging to become part of Springsteen’s band.
The cover of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run is just as iconic as the songs it contains, and a new book is shedding insight into how it came together. Peter Ames Carlin writes in his book Tonight in ...
The infamous sax solo Clarence Clemons plays on Bruce Springsteen’s rock classic “Born To Run” is so vibrant and exhilarating that it seems like a moment of pure inspiration on Clemons’ part. In truth ...
When Clarence Clemons passed away in 2011, he left a sizable void in a lot of lives. He had a profound impact on many people, but most notable was his tenure with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street ...
This story originally appeared in the Asbury Park Press on Dec. 25, 2011. The "Big Man" Clarence Clemons is perhaps best known as the towering saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
As any music critic knows, revealing fresh insight about work so prominent as to have become one with a bygone era’s zeitgeist is challenging in the extreme. Bruce Springsteen’s 1975-released magnum ...
This story originally appeared in the Asbury Park Press on July 19, 2011. The "Tribute to the Late, Great Clarence Clemons" show Sunday night at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park had an extra headliner: ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Appearance alone is enough to label Clarence Clemons, saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, the Big Man. But the ...