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And yet that is all I write about.

He surrounds Growin Up with memories of his first guitar lessons.

Bruce Springsteen on Broadway

Credit: Rob DeMartin

(They lasted two weeks.

He was horrible.)

My Fathers House is packaged with tales of Springsteens father, a distant and often depressed patriarch.

Thats right, he says, the man who wrote Racing In The Streets had never driven a car!

Across the shows two hours dotted with 15 songs and presented without intermission Springsteens comedic timing is impeccable.

Their reactions to the show were they same: They laughed, they cried, they took selfies.

Springsteens an ace dry comedian, but hes even better when hes breaking your heart.

A performance of Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out dedicated to Clemons draws some of the loudest applause of the evening.

I hope that Ive done that, he says, and that Ive been a good traveling companion.

If hes got a shred of doubt left, the rattling ovation that follows will certainly convince him.