Clarence Clemons

Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News, Exclusive, Holy HellIn 1989, Ringo Starr handed a phone to Clarence Clemons when Bruce Springsteen called to break some unfortunate news. "It's over, Big Man," Springsteen said. With that succinct announcement, the E Street Band was broken up.In a story showcasing rock 'n' roll's interesting bedfellows, Clemons tells Spinner how he learned that Springsteen had decided to go his own way. "These things that...  

By Patrick S. Pemberton -- It turns out that Clarence Clemons wasn’t completely full of it when he wrote about hanging out with Bruce Springsteen at the Pozo Saloon.“I’ve been there,” said Clemons, the sax player for Springsteen’s E Street Band, commonly known as “The Big Man.” But whether Springsteen has ever been to the saloon — as Clemons described in his book “The Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales” — is still a bit fuzzy.  

Filed under: News, Exclusive, MoviesBruce Springsteen and the E Street BandSworn to silence for 25 years, E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons is finally coming clean about Robert De Niro's most famous movie line. The line -- "Are you talkin' to me?" from 'Taxi Driver' -- was stolen from Bruce Springsteen. According to 'Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales,' written by Clemons and co-author Don Reo, De Niro confessed to having heard...  

Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, just finished the talk show circuit promoting his new autobiography, "Big Man: Real Life and Tall Tales." The book is a collection of short stories from Clemons' life, some of which he calls tall tales, or "gray areas," appropriately printed on gray pages and others that are rooted in the truth.