Bruce (70 page)

Bruce and the E Street Band in its
Born to Run
to
Born in the U.S.A.
lineup. Left to right: Bruce, Garry Tallent, Danny Federici, Steve Van Zandt, Roy Bittan, Max Weinberg, and Clarence Clemons.
© Frank Stefanko

Bruce in mid-meltdown at the September 22, 1979, Musicians United for Safe Energy concert, leading ex-girlfriend and professional photographer Lynn Goldsmith onto the stage before having her ejected from Madison Square Garden. Number one fan Obie Dziedzic (just to the left of the Jethro Tull T-shirt, in glasses) looks horrified.
© Bob Leafe

With actress girlfriend Joyce Hyser on Christmas morning, 1981, New Jersey.
Courtesy of Joyce Hyser Collection

In his bedroom of the house Bruce rented on the shores of a reservoir in Colts Neck, New Jersey, 1982, just after recording
Nebraska
. The painting behind him is the result of a paint-by-numbers project and may have come with the furnished home.
© Frank Stefanko

Musclebound and blasting the biggest noise imaginable, Bruce launched the
Born in the U.S.A.
album, tour, and era in 1984.
© Lawrence Kirsch /
musicfoto.com

Hired just days before the start of the U.S.A. tour, singer Patti Scialfa soon became an integral member of the E Street Band and in Bruce’s life.
© Bob Leafe

Bruce and Julianne: The newlyweds walking outside the reception for their 1985 wedding in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
© Brent Wojahn/
The Oregonian

After the
Born in the U.S.A.
mania ebbed, and the complexities of married life grew around him, Bruce started work on the more intimate
Tunnel of Love
.
© Pam Springsteen

Living in Los Angeles in the early ’90s, and traveling widely through the rural southwest, Bruce found the voices and stories for
The Ghost of Tom Joad
, and another step forward in his writing.
© Pam Springsteen

Still partners . . . 
Courtesy of Jon Landau Collection

Four years after the awkward “Blood Brothers” reunion, and despite Bruce’s last-minute fears, the 1999 reunion with Clemons and the rest of the E Street Band proved enormously successful.
© Rocco Coviello /
roccosphototavern.com

With Steve Van Zandt sharing second guitar duties with Nils Lofgren, the twenty-first-century E Street Band sounded more powerful than ever.
© Rocco Coviello /
roccosphototavern.com