“As you boys know your pop was a not a day at the beach. ‘C’ lived a life where he did what he wanted to do and he let the chips, human and otherwise, fall where they may. Like a lot of us your pop was capable of great magic and also of making quite an amazing mess. This was just the nature of your daddy and my beautiful friend.”
Bruce Springsteen, from his eulogy for saxophonist Clarence Clemons. “The Big Man,” Springsteen’s onstage sidekick for decades, died on June 18th at age 69.