A LITTLE FROM THE BIG MAN

Clarence Clemons isn’t about to stop now—he’s too much on a roll. A rockin’ roll. He has to do it this way, because “it’s easier to keep on going than to stop and start again.”

Throughout the extensive 18-month tour as sax man for Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Clemons always kept himself busy with outside projects of his own. He found time to visit Detroit and participate in Aretha Franklin’s “Freeway Of Love” video (he played sax on the single, too); he also stopped by former E Street guitarist Steve Van Zandt’s Sun City project. And his new son Christopher, planned to the exact day, was born in the middle of a four-week break before the European part of the tour. While the rest of the band went back to their hotel rooms exhausted after a show, Clemons was studying Lamaze classes on a Betamax, preparing for the birth. “I want to write a book on the pregnant father,” he says of the ordeal.