Bruce has told at 2017 Tribeca Film Festival with actor Tom Hanks for a conversation about his life and music. the NEW YORK POST and tribecafilm.com reports.
The Boss has spent much of his career writing songs about the working class. But Bruce Springsteen is the first to tell he hasn’t done much in the way of hard work himself.
“The only honest work I’ve ever done in my entire life was at 14 or 15 when I was a lawn boy”
“I painted houses and tarred roofs in the summertime – that was to get the money to buy my first guitar.”
Springsteen has had an illustrious career spanning over 40 years of unforgettable cultural achievements.
The musician sits down with celebrated actor and longtime friend Tom Hanks to discuss Springsteen's life.
In the 1960s, playing with Steel Mill Bruce recalls: “We ended up playing this little club . . . and I’m in the bathroom.
This guy says ‘You guys are pretty good, where are you from?’ I said, ‘New Jersey.’
He said, ‘What’s that?’ ”
After a gig by his first band, the Castilles. “It was the best money I ever made . . . except for all the rest!”
“When I was very young, I would sleep until three in the afternoon, and not go to bed until three in the morning . . . because I could!”
Tom Hanks is an award-winning actor, producer and director. One of only two actors in history to win back-to-back Best Actor Academy Awards®.
Hanks has starred in over 40 films. Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Big and Philadelphia. With his production company, Playtone. Hanks has produced several award-winning TV series.
In 2013, he garnered multiple award nominations for his Broadway debut in Nora Ephron's "Lucky Guy." Hanks has received the AFI's the Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Springsteen's recording career spans over 40 years, beginning with 1973's "Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ" (Columbia Records).
He has released 18 studio albums, garnered 20 Grammys®, won an Oscar®. B een inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, received a Kennedy Center Honor. Was MusiCares' 2013 Person of the Year.
Springsteen’s memoir "Born to Run" (Simon & Schuster) and its companion album "Chapter and Verse" were released in September 2016.
Springsteen was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2016 and recently completed a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
