Bobby Jean

Today on Bruce Springsteen sings the alphabet, Bobby Jean.

Hey, everybody.

You're listening to Bruce Springsteen Sings the Alphabet.

I'm joined as always.

I'm joined as always by Rob.

And today we're talking about Bobby Jean from Born in the USA.

Rob, how you doing today? JB,

I'm good.

So, and this will be important not only for this episode, but also for the next episode.

So the next episode is Bobby Jean.

And so we're going to talk about, like, the Steven Van Zandt story is really important if we're going to talk about these two songs.

So just real quickly...

But it's also like, no, he probably already kind of had an inkling something was not right.

So anyway, April the 6th, 1984, an official public announcement is made that Stephen is leaving the E Street Band specifically to pursue a solo career.

So the question is, why is all of that important when we talk about this song and Bobby Jean? It's because this song and the next one on the album are both about male friendship.

Yeah.