R.I.P Clarence

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Clarence Clemons, who has died aged 69, was a saxophonist and, as a key member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, a highly influential rock musician of recent decades.
His imprint was all over Springsteen’s defining Born to Run album of 1975. Almost as much as the music, it was the sleeve image of Springsteen leaning nonchalantly on Clemons that symbolised the intense fraternal bonding which helped fuel Springsteen’s rise. Throughout the years of their greatest success, Clemons was a vital ingredient of Springsteen’s sound and an invaluable onstage foil to the “Boss”.

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