Bruce Springsteen announced her death on Thursday on Instagram post, saying she died on Wednesday.
He shared a video of the two of them dancing to the Glenn Miller swing-era standard In The Mood with the caption "Adele Springsteen - May 4, 1925-January 31, 2024". He then quoted at length from the lyrics for The Wish, one of his songs that invokes her.
"I remember in the morning mom hearing your alarm clock ring. I'd lie in bed and listen to you getting ready for work, the sound of your makeup case on the sink," the post read.
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The cause and other details were not immediately revealed, but Springsteen said in 2021 his mother had been struggling with Alzheimer's disease for a decade and could no longer speak or stand.
The New York City native moved as a child to Freehold, never fathoming she would some day bear offspring who would turn New Jersey into lyrical legend.
Adele Springsteen's joyful, spirited charm made her a fan magnet in her own right. "Video evidence of Adele rocking out onstage with Bruce dates back to 1992," according to Rolling Stone magazine.
She was "real smart, real strong, real creative," with a "refusal to be disheartened," Bruce told biographer Dave Marsh.
And her influence ran deep.
She "held our family together" through years of hardship, the musician said in a 2010 Ellis Island speech, sharing the stage with his beaming mother and aunts.
"I took after my mom in a certain sense. Her life had an incredible consistency, work, work, work every day, and I admired that greatly," he told Uncut magazine in 2002, praising her 'noble' juggling of work and home.
"I'd visit her at her job sometimes, and it was filled with men and women who seemed to have a purpose," he said.
"I found a lot of inspiration in those simple acts."
Bruce's father Douglas died in 1998.
Survivors include their daughters, Pamela Springsteen and Virginia Shave, and an extended family.
