Bruce Springsteen has been working in the industry as a musician for decades now, and one of the reasons he pursued music is because of Elvis Presley; how did the late singer impact his music career?
According to Outsider, the "Pay Me My Money Down" hitmaker said he wouldn't be a musician if it weren't for Presley. When he was a kid, he saw the late singer on television, which has changed his perspective since then.
Springsteen first saw his idol on "The Ed Sullivan Show." He mentioned that Presley's dance moves, attitude, and songs inspired him.
At the age of six or seven, the singer asked his mom to buy a guitar for him. However, there was a big problem as his hands were too small to play one of his favorite songs, "Hound Dog."
"At 7, I don't know how much of a life I had to change, but whatever I had, it struck me right away. I got my mother run down to the store next week, and we rented a guitar," he told Stephen Colbert in an interview.
At one point, he gave up and stopped using the $6 a week rented guitar and put it away.
However, his passion reignited when he saw "The Beatles," he felt he got struck by lightning twice.
Despite idolizing the icon, he never met him personally. There was a time when he attempted to enter Presley's home in Memphis at 3 a.m. after his show.
According to Ultimate Classic Rock, the singer and his guitarist, Steven Van Zandt, knocked on the door, but unfortunately, Presley was in another state that day.
They were removed from the premises by security guards immediately.
The reason why he wanted to meet Presley was not just for a "meet and greet," but instead to present him a song titled "Fire" in hopes of him performing it.
However, the "Can't Help Falling in Love" singer passed away before hearing the song.
In 1978, Springsteen recorded the track and released it after ten years.
Looking back at Presley's death, the singer recalled the time he found out about the devastating news.
"it was so hard to understand how somebody whose music came in and took away so many people's loneliness and gave so many people a reason and a sense of the possibilities of living could have, in the end, died so tragically," he said. (via Express UK)
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