I was doing field service in Boston around 1999 and while walking down the sidewalk and looking down literately walked right into Springsteen in front of the Four seasons hotel.
we both said sorry but i was amazed that such a huge star was actually a tiny little man.
Was in the Gulf during one of the wars we were in....in Bahrain off duty and went to one of the “Mexican” places in town for dinner.
Sting was in there. His group saw us enter, and we could hear them gripe about how they would have to all say hi to us and act happy.
We just walked right by that pompous asshole like he was a local.
They seemed a bit miffed.
I met Henry Rollins of Black Flag. He wasn’t very tall either, but he must have had an 18” neck.
Springsteen and RS’s Jan Wenner are homo butt buddies.