Grga Pitic: "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Nambawan!

Clemons was een vooraanstaand lid van de E Street Band, de begeleidingsband van zanger Bruce Springsteen. Vanaf 1972 was hij een van de gezichten en muzikale drijfveren van de groep. Springsteen introduceerde hem op het album Live in New York City (2001) als de "Minister of soul, secretary of the brotherhood". In het Springsteennummer Tenth avenue freeze out (Born to Run) wordt hij ook bezongen: "When the change was made uptown, and the big man joined the band, all the little pretties raise their hands. I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh, when scooter and the big man bust this city in half."
Clemons heeft meerdere soloalbums op zijn naam staan en heeft met diverse artiesten gespeeld, onder wie Aretha Franklin en Roy Orbison. In 2011 speelde hij mee op de nieuwe plaat van Lady Gaga. Daarnaast heeft hij kleine rolletjes gespeeld in een aantal films, waaronder Blues Brothers 2000. Met Jackson Browne bracht hij in 1985 de single You're a friend of mine uit.

  Clarence Anicholos Clemons Aug 11, 2013 7:44 AM

There's a lipstick sunset
Smeared across the august sky
There's a bitter sweet perfume
Hanging in the fields
The creek is running high

And I left my lover waiting
In the dawn somewhere to wonder why
By the end of the day
All her sweet dreams would fade
To a lipstick sunset

Well, a radio was playing
And that ol' summer heat was on the rise
I just had to get away
Before some sad old song
Brought tears to my eyes

And lord I couldn't tell her
That her love was only killing me
By the end of the day
All her sweet dreams would fade
To a lipstick sunset

Well it's pretty as a picture baby
Red and blushing just before the night
Maybe love's like that for me
Maybe I can only see
As you take away the light

So hold me in the darkness
We can dream about the cool twilight
'Til the end of the day
I can make my getaway
To a lipstick sunset

Til the end of the day
I can make my getaway
To a lipstick sunset

There will come another day
Then I'll make my getaway
To a lipstick sunset

  John Hiaat Aug 12, 2013 7:50 AM