"Adele Springsteen - May 4, 1925 - January 31, 2024," Bruce wrote alongside a clip of him and his mum dancing to swing music together.
In the caption of the post, the Dancing in the Dark hitmaker wrote the lyrics to his 1998 song The Wish, which was written for his mother.
Adele often attended Bruce's concerts. She was well known to Bruce's fans as the mother and son duo often danced together on stage.
In an appearance on The Today Show in 2021, Bruce opened up about his mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease.
"She's 95 and she's 10 years into Alzheimer's and that's taken a lot away from us," he said at the time. "But the need to dance hasn't left her."
"She can't speak. She can't stand. She can't feed herself. But when she sees me, there is always a smile. Still a smile. And there's still a kiss," the musician continued. "And there's a sound which she makes when she sees me. It's just the sound but I know it means 'I love you.'"
While Springsteen’s father worked a number of jobs to support the family, Adele became the primary breadwinner working as a secretary, earning enough money to buy Bruce his first guitar, a moment Springsteen immortalized in the lyrics to his song, “The Wish” as a “brand-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.
Born Adele Zerilli in Brooklyn on May 4, 1925, she moved to Freehold, N.J. in 1940, where she and husband Doug Springsteen raised three children, Virginia, Bruce and Pamela. She was of Italian descent, and raised Springsteen as a Catholic, attending mass frequently at St. Rose of Lima Church in Freehold.
