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Bruce Springsteen<\/a> has always been known as \u2018The Boss\u2019. But by his own careful admission, he\u2019s not always quite as confident as he likes to let on.\u00a0<\/p>\n Put simply, there is a reason that the E Street Band have remained by his side for over the past half a century, consistently ferrying between the recording studio and the stadium stage as they rotate around the hallmarks of rock superstardom. It\u2019s largely because Springsteen confesses that he wouldn\u2019t have had the gall to go out there without them in tow. <\/p>\n Although no member of the E Street Band is above the others in terms of their impact, it was always Clarence Clemons who acted as Springsteen\u2019s permanent right-hand man, but it was for notions far more profound than just his musical talents alone. Indeed, what bound them together was the sense that they were vital to each other.<\/p>\n From the very second they crashed into each other\u2019s orbit<\/a>, this was something \u2018The Boss\u2019 inherently understood without necessarily having the words to express it at the time. \u201cThe first time I\u2019d seen C\u2019s massive form striding out of the shadows of a half-empty bar in Asbury Park, I\u2019d thought, \u2018Here comes my brother.\u2019 Yet as solid as the Big Man was, he was also very fragile,\u201d he recalled in a 2016 interview for Rolling Stone.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn some funny way, we became each other\u2019s protectors; I think perhaps I protected C from a world where it still wasn\u2019t so easy to be big and Black. Racism was still there, and over our years together, occasionally, we saw it. Clarence\u2019s celebrity and size did not always make him immune,\u201d Springsteen soberly explained. Yet even still, this was far from a one-sided effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n Clemons also felt it was his duty to stand by his maestro through thick and thin. \u201cI think perhaps C protected me from a world where it wasn\u2019t always so easy to be an insecure, weird and skinny white boy either,\u201d \u2018The Boss\u2019 continued. But despite their individual weaknesses, the combination of them both turned them into the world\u2019s most potent force, knowing that each other\u2019s backs were covered.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cStanding together, we were badass, on any given night, some of the baddest asses on the planet. And we were coming to your town to shake you and to wake you up,\u201d he said, with the image of that blazing inferno clear for all to see. Tearing up stages all over the world might just have been part of the day job, but it was one that they couldn\u2019t have mastered without the unwavering presence of their rock of strength. <\/p>\n Of course, for both Clemons and Springsteen, that notion came to mean very different things. But it was clearly a comfort that no matter what far-flung corner of the world they may have found themselves in, they always had the solidity of each other to play the best show they possibly could. Now Clemons is gone, it\u2019s his inimitable spirit<\/a> which keeps \u2018The Boss\u2019 moving forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n People may often wonder what exactly still continues to motivate and energise Springsteen, even after all these years and decades. Money and fame are one thing, but it\u2019s easy to get jaded by that. Instead, it\u2019s the knowledge that if his best friend were still here today, he\u2019d absolutely be willing him on. 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