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Bruce Springsteen’s official Instagram announced Thursday that his mother Adele Ann Springsteen died on Wednesday. The rocker paid tribute to his mother by quoting lyrics from her song “The Wish,” which describes his younger years.
“I remember that in the morning mom heard the alarm clock ring. She would lay me in bed and listen to you getting ready for work, the sound of your makeup case in the sink. And the office ladies, full of lipstick, perfume and crisp skirts, how proud and happy you always seemed to walk home from work.
It’s not a phone call on Sunday, or flowers, or a Mother’s Day card. There is a house on the hill with a garden and a nice little patio. I have my hot rod on Bond Street. I’m older but you’ll recognize me at a glance. We’ll find a little rock’n roll bar and go out dancing,” the lyrics say.
Born Adele Zerilli in Brooklyn on May 4, 1925, she moved to Freehold, New Jersey in 1940, where she and her husband Doug Springsteen raised three children, Virginia, Bruce, and Pamela. She was of Italian descent and raised Springsteen as a Catholic, frequently attending mass at St. Rose of Lima Church in Freehold.
While Springsteen’s father worked multiple jobs to support the family, Adele became the family’s main breadwinner working as a secretary, earning enough money to buy Bruce his first guitar, a moment Springsteen immortalized in the lyrics of his song , “The Wish,” like “a new Japanese guitar” under the Christmas tree “and how proud and happy you always looked walking home from work.” The Springsteens moved from New Jersey to California when Bruce was a teenager, but Bruce stayed in Freehold.
In later years, the Springsteen matriarch shined at her son’s shows, joining him on stage at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Arena to perform “Dancing in the Dark” and shaking her tail to “Ramrod” at the Barclays. Brooklyn Center.
“Not bad for almost 90,” Springsteen told the Philadelphia crowd in 2012.
Adele Springsteen loved to dance, and her Rock and Roll Hall of Famer son did it often, taking her to local Jersey spots like The Wonder Bar in Asbury Park for a night out watching Eddie Testa or another entertainment.
“My mother loves to dance,” Springsteen said during a 2021 performance of Springsteen on Broadway in New York. “She grew up in the ’40s… (with) the big bands and the swing bands, and that was a time when her dancing was an existential act.”
Springsteen said today in 2021 that despite his battle with Alzheimer’s, his mother still recognized him.
“She can not speak. She can’t stand it. She can’t feed herself. But when she sees me, there is always a smile. Still a smile. And there’s still a kiss,” Springsteen said. “And there’s a sound she makes when she sees me. It’s just the sound, but I know it means “I love you.”
“And when I put on Glenn Miller and she starts moving around in her chair (she does, she does), she starts coming up to me, taking her in my arms one more time and dancing with her around the floor.”
Springsteen continued: “This is an essential part of Mom’s spirit, it’s who she is. It is beyond language and is more powerful than memory. She is the incarnation. This is what she has trusted and what she has lived her life in and that, despite everything she has suffered, she continues to this moment, as if the beauty of her life never left her. . I love her.”
Springsteen is survived by his three children, his daughter-in-law Patti Scialfa, his sons-in-law Bob Roth and Michael Shave, his grandchildren Evan, Jessica and Sam and Ruby Roth, Christopher Shave and Marisa Potts, and his great-grandchildren Lily Harper Springsteen. , Nicole and Samantha Shave, and an extended family of relatives.