Bruce Springsteen on November 11, 2016 when it broke down and he was stranded alongside the road. A group of men from the Freehold American Legion in New Jersey were returning from a Veterans Day event on their motorcycles when they spotted Springsteen and stopped to help. Springsteen hitched a ride on the back of one of the men's motorcycles to a nearby restaurant where the group grabbed a round of drinks, for which Springsteen picked up the tab, while waiting for his ride. While rejecting religion in his earlier years, Bruce stated in his autobiography "Born To Run", he has "a
Point Blank (Bruce Springsteen song) Point Blank (Bruce Springsteen song) "Point Blank" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and first released on Springsteen's 1980 album "The River". In Europe, it was also released as a single in 1981, backed by another song from "The River", "Ramrod". Although it was not released as a single in the US, it did reach #20 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. "Point Blank" was written in 1978, and was the first song Springsteen wrote after completing the "Darkness on the Edge of Town" album. "Point Blank" had its live premiere on July 7, 1978 in a concert