Fact check ‘Springsteen: Free me from nothing’

Springsteen: Save me from nothing also touches on the Dancing in the dark the singer’s family life, including his strained relationship with his father, Douglas. The scenes, including the one where he goes to pick up his father at a bar, are taken from real-life events.

Springsteen previously talked about his visit to the bar during Springsteen on Broadway in 2017, admitting it made him both “excited” and “terrified.”

“It excited me because my mother gave me permission to enter the bar! I’m a child! But it scared me because entering the bar is tantamount to entering my father’s privileged, private and sacred space,” he says. shared. ‘He wasn’t allowed to be disturbed when he was at the bar. Everyone knew that… I stood there, lost in the noise and bustle of the crowd, drinking in that faint smell of beer, booze and aftershave.”

He added: “To a child, that was the smell of adulthood. It was the smell of masculinity. I wanted some of that.”