Bruce Springsteen isn’t dancing within the dough — no less than to not billionaire situation.
The rock legend, 75, denies the July Forbes report “conservatively estimating” him to be use $1.1 billion.
“I’m not a billionaire,” he told the Telegraph. “I wish I was, but they got that real wrong. I’ve spent too much money on superfluous things.”
However Springsteen defined that, nearest years of suffering ahead of making it obese, you wish to have to experience “your good fortune” as a result of “you put the work in.”
Nonetheless — even though he bought his track catalog to Sony for $500 million in 2021 — cash was once by no means his largest cause when it got here to his Rock & Roll Corridor of Repute profession.
“That’s usually where people go south,” mentioned Springsteen, who was once pushed to offer protection to his skill in any respect prices. “If I had failed at that, I would have failed at everything, in my opinion.”
Regardless of rejecting the billionaire label, Springsteen’s global excursion introduced in $380 million in 2023, consistent with Pollstar. He additionally purchased houses in Wellington, Florida, and Beverly Hills, that are estimated at $15 million.
In 2017, he bought his 6,000 square-foot Rumson, Brandnew Jersey, house for $3.2 million. His 368-acre ranch was once bought in 1994, and he makes use of it as his number one place of dwelling.
Making an investment in his inventive interests, Springsteen has generously compensated his loved E Boulevard Band too.
“I pay them a tremendous amount of money,” he mentioned at a London screening of his unutilized documentary “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.”
“That greases the wheels pretty good,” he went on. “And then I’m a pretty nice boss. The truth is you need to cast your band well.”
Springsteen credited his longtime band because the undercover to his luck — and longevity — as a street warrior.
“If you get the art right, the music right, and the band right, you go out and play every night like it’s your last night on Earth. That was the serial philosophy of the band, and we’re sticking to it,” he mentioned.
Springsteen’s sideman Steven Van Zandt, additionally on the London screening, mentioned that the E Boulevard Band hasn’t been pushed by way of bucks both.
“It was never a commercial enterprise,” he mentioned. “This has been an inventive journey from the start.
“So anyone joining knew that was what they were getting into,” he endured. “Now luckily we found some commercial calling ground along the way, which was great.”
Certainly, Springsteen and the E Boulevard Band reached blockbuster heights 40 years in the past with 1984’s “Born in the USA” magazine and excursion.
And 4 many years upcoming, the band remains to be going robust — in opposition to all odds.
“The actual arc of rock ’n’ roll bands is to break up,” mentioned Springsteen, who might be performed by way of Jeremy Allen White in an then biopic. “Think about it, how many bands have stayed together against how many who broke up?”
