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Bruce Springsteen on His New Documentary ‘Road Diary’ and His Current Outlook: ‘If I Went Tomorrow, I’d Be, “It’s Okay, What a F–king Ride” ‘

Bruce Springsteen talks about his new documentary, 'Road Diary,' at the doc's Toronto Film Festival premiere.

From being the only surviving member of from his first band, the Castiles, which he joined at 16 (captured in the song “Last Man Standing”), to the “terrible blows to the [E Street] Band” when Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici died too young — in 2011 and 2008, respectively — and the final scene of Springsteen dancing with his mom, Adele — who died in February at 98 (and to whom Road Diary is dedicated) — Springsteen, now 74, is feeling nostalgic, contemplative, appreciative and a little bit melancholy. There is also a brief but startling revelation in the documentary when his wife — and band member — Patti Scialfa, 71, says she received a diagnosis in 2018 of early-stage multiple myeloma (blood cancer), which she says “affects my immune system” and makes it “challenging” to tour. We try to show how that happened.” Though the doc includes a good deal of footage from the current tour, Landau says, “We really wanted to tell the story of Bruce, the live performer, artist, and what goes into it.

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