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I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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