Releasing three albums in the 90’s, Springsteen had 2 in 1992 alone – Human Touch, and Lucky Town – which his website describes as “companion albums.” This makes sense, as they were literally released on the same day.
The ’90s saw him find success through the song “Streets of Philadelphia,” for the Oscar-winning film Philadelphia. That song garnered him four more Grammy wins in 1994. In 1995 he released The Ghost of Tom Joad.
The ’90’s were also a decade of personal change in Springsteen’s life. In 1990, he had his first son, Evan, with bandmate Patti Scialfa. The following year, he and Scialfa got married; the same year she gave birth to his second child, Jessica. In 1994, they had their youngest, a boy named Sam.
In a 2019 CBS interview with Gayle King, the rocker opened up about parenthood – Springsteen has spoken about the fraught relationship that he had with his own father growing up, and said that he didn’t want it to negatively impact his kids.
“There were a lot of mistakes I didn’t want to make,” he told the broadcaster. “And I think the way you look at it is, like, I don’t want my kids to have to dig themselves out of my hole. They’re gonna have their own hole they got to dig themselves out of. That’s just part of life, you know?”
Springsteen then added that people always “pass something along,” but “that’s just life, you know? So as a parent, you do your best to not lay too much of your own bulls— on them.”
