“Big Man” Clarence Clemons Dies at 69......

Saxophonist Clarence Clemons, known as the “Big Man” of the Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, has died on the Saturday of problems from a stroke that he suffered earlier in this month.

Clemons was born in the Virginia and has played football at the Maryland State College before becoming injured in an accident. While working as a youth counselor in the New Jersey, he involved in the Jersey Shore music scene; in the year 1971, and he wound up in the bar in Asbury Park:

Mr. Clemons’s 1^st collaboration with the Mr. Springsteen has become E Street Band lore. In most of the telling, a lightning storm was progressing through Asbury Park in one night in the year 1971 as Mr. Springsteen was playing a gig there. As Mr. Clemons entered in bar, the wind blew the door off its pivot, and Mr. Springsteen was worried by the very tall shadow at the door. Then Mr. Clemons encouraged himself on the stage to play along, and they clicked.