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10:45 AM GMT 29/06/2010

Bruce Springsteen, Monmouth County, New Jersey, May 26, 2010

IN BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S magazine interview to promote his latest release - the DVD of June, 2009's revelatory Hyde Park concert - he sets out his plans for the future of the E Street Band.

"My theory is," Springsteen tells MOJO's Keith Cameron, "while we are now probably playing for an audience that will outlive us, we are still mighty and strong."

Springsteen has hit the 21st Century running, upping the recording turnover and live work with the legendary E Street Band, the group he deemed surplus to requirements in 1989 before reinstating them a decade later. As if making up for lost time, the greying unit play harder than ever and attract all ages to their marathon shows.

"I think we skipped a generation there in the '90s," Springsteen admits. "The decade the E Street Band didn't perform in was the decade where I felt a recession of our impact."

In a wide-ranging interview illustrated with candid Danny Clinch photos taken at Springsteen's New Jersey hideaway, Springsteen ponders the impact of his home state on his writing, his kinship with punk bards Joe Strummer and Patti Smith and his weakness for "the darkness".

Surprisingly, he reveals a rapprochement with Mike Appel, the ex-manager whose post-Born To Run lawsuit kept Springsteen out of the recording studio for much of 1975-1977, forcing the newly famous rocker into a hand-to-mouth existence on the road: "Everybody was down in the trenches doing what they had to do."

Having reconciled with his E-Street Band colleagues in time to make 2002's The Rising, the union seems set to go the distance this time, with The Boss conceding that Springsteen, Weinberg, Van Zandt and crew are stronger together than apart.

"We are unique. There's only one of us. When we're done, many other wonderful things will be done, but they won't do what we do."

Read the full interview in the new issue of MOJO magazine on sale Thursday. More details here...

Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:45 AM GMT 29/06/2010

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