“We’ve go to do that!,” Springsteen told his manager.īut, as the talk continued, Questlove, the Roots’s drummer and musical director, called up a clip on YouTube of “Wiggle Wobble” and, furtively, worked up an arrangement on the fly. But, to Landau’s surprise, he got a call from Springsteen himself, who had just listened to the demo and loved it. “I told Jimmy’s music booker, Jonathan Cohen, ‘This just doesn’t sound like Bruce,’” Landau told me. Landau didn’t think Springsteen would go for it. He made a demo CD in which he performed both parts-a doleful “All my ladies, caaan you feel meee?” from Neil, a guttural “Whip your hairrrr!” from Bruce-and sent it along to Springsteen’s longtime manager, Jon Landau. Prior to Springsteen’s 2010 appearance, Fallon came up with the idea of turning Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” into a “Young”-Springsteen duet. Thus, the first time Springsteen appeared on Late Night, in 2010, Fallon and his writers were overflowing with ideas on how best to turn the Boss’s visit into event television.įallon had recently launched his recurring “Neil Young” bit, in which, dressed as circa-1970 Young, he reinterprets contemporary pop hits as plaintive acoustic ballads. cover story, Fallon has been a diehard Bruce Springsteen fan since childhood. As I learned from profiling Fallon for this month’s V.F. Tuesday night’s bravura, news-making, two-Bruce, Bridgegate-driven rewrite of “Born to Run” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is just the tip of the iceberg.
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