When The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon started out, he never expected to be rubbing shoulders with the great and the good of rock’n’roll. “I’m just a punk-rock kid from New Jersey,” says the singer, whose band recently reunited and are due to release their first album in nine years, History Books. “I just thought we’d put out some music and hit the clubs.”
Except it didn’t quite pan out like that. Fallon never met Lemmy, but he has sung on stage with Bruce Springsteen at Glastonbury, got life tips from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, and been scared to death by Mark Lanegan.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
I grew up listening to him. I remember being a really young kid and hearing Born In The USA on MTV at my friend’s house, and singing it over and over in the playground at school the next day. The first time I met him was really quick at a benefit show in Redbank, New Jersey – it was just a real quick “Hi” and a handshake, and that was it. Even then I lost my mind. I was freaking out inside.
What happened afterwith Bruce Springsteen in this tent at Glastonbury. And it got even crazier that night, because I went out and sang a song [No with him during his headlining set in front of ninety thousand people.
