Bruce Springsteen has announced the passing of his mother, Adele Springsteen. She was 99 years old.
Springsteen shared the news of his mother’s death in an Instagram post on Thursday, February 1st. Alongside a video of the two dancing together, Bruce recited the lyrics from his 1987 song, “The Wish.”
“I remember in the morning mom hearing your alarm clock ring. I’d lie in bed and listen to you getting ready for work, the sound of your makeup case on the sink. And the ladies at the office all lipstick, perfume and rustling skirts, how proud and happy you always looked walking home from work.
It ain’t no phone call on Sunday, flowers or a Mother’s Day card. It ain’t no house on the hill with a garden and a nice little yard. I’ve got my hot rod down on Bond Street I’m older but you’ll know me in a glance. We’ll find us a Little rock ‘n roll bar and we’ll go out and dance.”
Springsteen previously credited his mother for inspiring him to take up music and renting him his first guitar at the age of seven. “There ain’t a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back to my mother,” he once said of her.
