Bruce Springsteen Feared He Might Not Regain His Ability To Sing
deadline.comThe Boss is back, as 74-year-old Bruce Springsteen returned to the concert stage this week in Phoenix after postponing his world tour last September.
But in an interview with SiriusXM’s E Street Radio host Jim Rotolo, Springsteen said the peptic ulcer disease that sidelined him had him concerned he might not be able to sing again. “Once I started singing, you know, you can rehearse singing, but your voice isn’t the same in rehearsal.
You don’t have that edge of adrenaline that really pushes it into a better place and the thing when I had the stomach problem, one of the big problems was I couldn’t sing,” Springsteen said. “You sing with your diaphragm.
My diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make the effort to sing, it was killing me, you know? So, I literally couldn’t sing at all, you know, and that lasted for two or three months, along with just a myriad of other painful problems.” Things got so bad, Springsteen admitted that he feared that he might never regain his ability to sing. “I was, during the course of it, before people told me, ‘Oh no.
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