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
The Ties That Bind (Bruce Springsteen song) has been a reasonably popular song in concert over the years, with about 200 performances through 2008. An encyclopedia about Bruce Springsteen took its name from the title of this song. The Ties That Bind (Bruce Springsteen song) "The Ties That Bind" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. It is the opening song on his fifth album, "The River". It was recorded at The Power Station in New York in May or June 1979. It was one of the earlier songs Springsteen wrote for "The River", as it was written on the road during his 1978 tour.