Lady Gaga remembers being ‘deeply moved’ by Bruce Springsteen’s music, as a child

Lady Gaga talked about Bruce Springsteen on “The Howard Stern Show,” March 11.

As Lady Gaga got ready to begin her interview on SiriusXM satellite radio’s “The Howard Stern Show,” March 11, Stern played Bruce Springsteen’s original recording of “Thunder Road,” which led to a brief discussion of The Boss.

“The piano on this is beautiful,” she said. “The minute you played it, I just, like, got so choked up, sitting here. This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Easy.”

She also said that “the reason I feel this song so deeply is because my dad played it for me when I was really little, and it was one of my earliest memories with music. I think I was so deeply moved as a child, and then the older I got, I realized, so much of Bruce Springsteen’s gift is that you just feel like he’s telling you about his real life, and also about yours, at the same time. He’s one of those magical musicians, you know. I felt I got to know my dad better, listening to Bruce Springsteen.”

She said that she started tinkering with the song, on the piano, “and then my dad actually got me the sheet music. When I started to learn how to read music, I learned it on the piano.”

Springsteen and Gaga have never really dueted, though they have been onstage together, at two different all-star charity benefit concerts. Here they are at Sting’s Rainforest Foundation benefit at Carnegie Hall in New York, in 2010, performing on an ensemble encore cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.” (The theme of the show was ” ’80s Nostalgia”).

Also, of course, Clarence Clemons played saxophone on Gaga’s 2011 hit, “Edge of Glory.”

Lady Gaga released a new album, Mayhem, on March 7.
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