Clarence Clemons
Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone, 1995
YOU'D THINK hed be pissed off, but the title of his new album — Peacemaker should have given me a clue. The man still built like the American football player he used to be before a knee injury sent him to the sidelines, and who talks like a cigar dipped in Valium, just shrugs and says, "Hes the Boss."
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