Bruce Springsteen admits he wouldn’t wish to be in an up-and-coming band in 2024.

The Boss makes the assertion in a new interview with the BBC, the place he laments what he perceives because the demise of the standard ‘rock star’. “I wouldn’t wish to be a younger band beginning as we speak,” he says. “The day of the quote ‘rock star’ is in twilight.”

Nonetheless, the legendary singer-songwriter, guitarist and E Road Band chief nonetheless has hope for the youthful technology, pointing to the success of 28-year-old US nation star Zach Bryan. “However I’ve had some encouragement,” he continues. “My younger good friend, Zach Bryan, simply bought out two stadium nights in Philadelphia, so there’s nonetheless some younger individuals arising.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Springsteen talks about his decades-long working relationship with the E Road Band, who’ve backed him up onstage since 1972. He attributes their prolonged tenure collectively to how a lot time they spend aside between excursions.

“After we’re not taking part in, we hardly ever see one another,” Springsteen says. “We’ve seen one another sufficient!”

He provides: “The arc of most bands is to interrupt aside. Even two guys can’t keep collectively. Simon can’t stand Garfunkel, Don couldn’t stand Phil Everly, after which you’ve the children in Oasis… so the custom carries on.

“It’s the character of individuals to not get alongside, in order that’s one thing it is advisable write into your projection of the type of band you wish to be in. I don’t like drama. I don’t need individuals knocking heads. I don’t wish to hear a couple of bunch of bull backstage. I don’t put up with any of that stuff. We weeded it out a very long time in the past. The band began out loopy and made its technique to sanity.”

A Disney+ documentary about Springsteen and the E Road Band, Street Diary, was launched as we speak (25 October). In it, the 75-year-old guarantees the collective will hold taking part in “till the wheels come off”. He additionally just lately shot down the concept his newest North American tour was to be his final.

“We’ve been round for 50 fuckin’ years, and we ain’t quitting!” Springsteen stated throughout a Philadelphia present in August. “We ain’t doing no farewell tour bullshit! Jesus Christ! No farewell tour for the E Road Band!”

He added, “Farewell to what? A thousand individuals screaming your title? Get the hell out, I ain’t going wherever!”