“That’s how I know that I’ve got something,” he explained. When the chips are down, I’m there.’ … When that guy gets down to that last verse … he’s using the only sales pitch that he’s got.” “He’s in a bar, there’s somebody there he’s interested in … thinking, ‘Hey, I’m not anything that special, but I last. “It’s probably my best love song … because it’s so understated,” he told Stern, noting the strength of the title before digging into the main character. Springsteen on Tougher Than The Rest and becoming that man: “Shortly thereafter I added about a half hour to it, and it became the show I did on Broadway,” Springsteen said, adding, “I played – I don’t know – 200-plus nights, we did it 14 months, and I enjoyed it every single night that I did it and found something new in it.” “It ended up being about 90 minutes of what the Broadway show became … Barack Obama came up and said, ‘I know you just did this for us, but you should turn this into a show.’” His two closest confidantes, his wife (and longtime E Street Band member) Patti Scialfa and his longtime manager-producer Jon Landau, agreed. “I thought, ‘What can I do that is different? Well, I’ll read from my book a little bit and play some songs that are related to it,’” he recalled of the performance.
“It just happened by accident,” Springsteen told Stern, explaining it all started when President Barack Obama invited him to play at the White House.
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