Who’s the Bo$$? Bruce Springsteen, voice of the working class, is now a billionaire
nypost.comBruce Springsteen was already a certified rock god. Well, now he’s a certified billionaire too.New Jersey’s resident working-class hero has made the big Boss move with Forbes “conservatively estimating” him to be worth $1.1 billion.Now how’s that for going from E Street to Easy Street?No doubt — he’s certainly come a long way from the same guy who used to tend bar at the Stone Pony club in Asbury Park, New Jersey, that he would make famous. “I wasn’t much of a bartender, but I’d serve up the beers and just have fun with the fans, and just enjoy myself,” Springsteen says in the new book “I Don’t Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony.” “[My signature] was beer.
With a Jack Daniel’s on the side, maybe.”Clearly, the artist who was once starving for success, until the release of his album “Born To Run” in 1975, can afford to buy the entire state of New Jersey beers and shots of Jack Daniel’s now.But even after the cash started to flow, Springsteen was never the type to go Hollywood, staying humble and grounded to home — and the “Backstreets” that shaped him.
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