Bruce Springsteen is 71 today! The song “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)” from The Wild, the Innocent, the E Street Shuffle in 1972 made the late Clarence Clemons think of a show in Arizona where the girls rushed the stage and threw Bruce Springsteen down on the floor. In a 1995 interview, the late E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons on what he thinks about when he hears “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).”
“Hey, what I can I say? It’s the same thing for me as everybody else who hears that song. It’s one of the most fun songs, one of those joyous crazy things that Bruce comes up with. And I think about Arizona, where the girls rushed the stage and threw him down on the floor. I said, ‘Damn! I should be singing this damn song!’”
