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Bruce Springsteen Mourns Mother Adele

Bruce Springsteen's mother Adele, 98, died after a long battle with Alzheimer's.

Springsteen announced the news on his Instagram account alongside a video of them dancing outside to a recording of the 1939 Glenn Miller classic “In The Mood.” She rented Bruce’s first guitar in 1956, shortly after Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and always encouraged his musical ambitions. “My mother was bright, happy, she’d merrily make conversation with a broom handle,” Bruce said in Springsteen on Broadway.

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