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
Independence Day (Bruce Springsteen song) Independence Day (Bruce Springsteen song) "Independence Day" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. It was originally released on his fifth album, released in 1980, "The River". It was recorded at The Power Station in New York, in February and May 1980. In 2015, Springsteen stated that he regards "Independence Day," "Point Blank," "Stolen Car" and the title track as being "the heart and soul" of "The River" album. "Independence Day", along with the title track, "Wreck on the Highway" and "Point Blank", is one of the verse-chorus songs on "The River" that was essentially a short story