The reunion with the public was a pretext for some confidences.
Bruce Springsteen returned to the Broadway stage on his tour.
According to NME, he took advantage of this concert to discuss - and play down - his recent arrest for drunk driving.
"I did not get up one morning and say to myself:
'
Here, and if I took my motorbike to go straight to prison
', the
" Boss "
had fun
.
And then I had to go to court ... on Zoom!
This case was the
“
United States versus Bruce Springsteen
”
.
It is always nice to know that the whole country is united against you! ”
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Bruce Springsteen then - not without irony - took stock of the charges against him.
"You have succeeded in committing a crime so serious that it has offended the whole of the United States!"
You, my recalcitrant outlaw friend, drank two shots of tequila, ”
he laughed.
On November 14, 2020, the singer was arrested for driving while intoxicated in a park in New Jersey.
The
"boss"
had received three citations for driving while intoxicated, dangerous driving and consumption of alcohol in a place where it is prohibited.
The 71-year-old musician, originally from New Jersey, had been
“cooperative”
during his arrest.
540 dollars fine
According to the documents sent to the court, the singer had explained to a police officer to have consumed two shots in the space of twenty minutes, but had refused to submit to a breathalyzer.
Police said Bruce Springsteen
"smelled strongly of alcohol"
at the time of his arrest and had
"glassy eyes
.
"
A
“completely empty”
bottle of tequila
was also found next to him.
During a virtual hearing in February, the singer pleaded guilty to the less serious of his three charges: alcohol consumption in a closed place.
He was fined $ 540.
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On Saturday, the American singer resumed his show Springsteen on Broadway, making him the first star to perform in New York City, both publicly and indoors, since the city's theaters reopened. Only vaccinated spectators were allowed to attend the show, proof of both injections being required for vaccines that require more than one. The 71-year-old rocker from New Jersey had already performed 236 sold-out performances of this same format between October 2017 and December 2018. An intimate show during which he performed several songs in acoustics, and evoked his life, his work and ... his recent setbacks.
