to say Clarence picks up the sax
and plays a solo when it’s time for
a solo, but that’s not really his role
in a lot of the music. His role is
when Bruce’s words run out, Clar-
ence’s horn picks up the story.”
One of the most interesting inter-
view subjects is former President
of the United States Bill Clinton
who first met Clarence at his in-
auguration in 1993. We see a clip
of the two playing sax together
and starting a friendship that en-
dured over time. When asked
how they got Clinton to be part of
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the film, Amodei said, “Sometimes
it pays to have good friends who
care about you. In this case, one
of those friends knows the Presi-
dent and reached out to him for
us.” Clinton doesn’t just make a
cameo, he appears several times
throughout the film.
We take a brief tour through some
of his acting jobs, his band Temple
of Soul, and the years after Spring-
steen fired the E Street Band and
moved on with another group of
musicians and solo work. We see
him living life as a king with a life of
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