Bruce Springsteen remembers his mother.

On October 25, Travel diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band premiered on Hulu and Disney+. The documentary delves into the preparations of the 75-year-old singer and his famous backing band before embarking on their latest tour, which began in 2023. It continued until 2024 and the group also booked European dates for 2025. The new tour was their first in six years, which Springsteen calls a “much longer break than expected” in the documentary.

Although most of the film, directed by longtime Springsteen collaborator Thom Zimny, focuses on the band and how the concerts take place, the final moments of the feature focus on something more personal: the Springsteen’s mother, Adele.

After the documentary’s final moments — which include a live performance of the song “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” — a video shows Springsteen and his mother Adele dancing together on a porch to Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood.” At the end of the clip, she cheers and gives him a hug and a kiss on the cheek, while Springsteen says, “Beautiful, beautiful.” Next, an on-screen card reads “Dedicated to Adele Springsteen” and lists her year of birth, 1926, and year of death, 2024.

Adele died on January 31 of this year. At the time, Springsteen posted on Instagram the same video that appears in the documentary. He also included the lyrics to the song “The Wish”. The record was originally released in 1988 as part of Springsteen’s album. Tracksa four-disc box set containing 66 songs, many of which are previously unreleased.

“The Wish” was also part of the “Thunder Road” singer’s song. Springsteen on Broadway show, a concert residency he performed from 2017 to 2018. He returned for further performances in 2021, and the concert was released as both an album and a Netflix special.

On stage, Springsteen called his mother “brilliant” and “happy.” He continues: “She happily chatted with a broomstick, she believed that there was good faith, good heart, good hope among all citizens. She may have given the world way more credit than it deserves, but that was her way.

“My mother was honesty, consistency, good humor, professionalism, grace, kindness, optimism, courtesy, fairness, self-pride, responsibility, love, faith in his family, the commitment, the joy in his work and the never-say-die thirst for life – for living and for life,” Springsteen said. how much his mother and aunts particularly loved the big bands of the 1940s.

“My mother has suffered from Alzheimer’s for seven years. And she’s 93,” he said at the time. “But dance, and the desire and need to dance, is something that has not left her. It remains an essential, primordial part of who she is, it’s beyond language, it’s more powerful than memory, and when she walks through the door we make sure there’s music. She wants to dance, you know. These things were the embodiment of my mother, they were her heart, she continued and continues as if they had never left her.

The song “The Wish” tells the story of the first guitar his mother bought him. During the chorus, he sings: “It’s not a Sunday phone call, flowers or a Mother’s Day card / It’s not a house on a hill with a garden and a pretty little yard / J I put my hot rod on Bond Street, I’m older but you’ll know me at a glance / We’ll find a little rock’n’roll bar and we’ll go out dancing.

Adele and Springsteen’s father, Douglas Frederick “Dutch” Springsteen, married in 1948 and remained together until his death in 1998. The couple also shared Bruce’s two sistersVirginia and Pam.

Travel diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band is now streaming on Hulu and Disney+.