Sam Fender on being compared to Bruce Springsteen: "I have ripped off loads of other people"
29 December 2022, 12:12 | Updated: 29 December 2022, 12:35
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Sam Fender isn't "too keen" on being referred to as the Geordie Bruce Springsteen.
The North Shields singer-songwriter is a huge fan of the legendary musician and has cited him as a big influence, but he's admitted he is "not too keen on that tag".
According to The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column, the Seventeen Going Under singer said: “I’m not too keen on that tag. I feel I would rather be me."
He joked: "It’s like, ‘hang on, I don’t just rip him off, I have ripped off loads of other people’.
He continued: “You take bits from everything as a musician. I have a saxophone and I am from a working-class town and I speak about working-class life, so it is easy to get stuck in.
“I can see where the crossover comes.”
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Fender revealed back in May that he had teamed up with Springsteen, alongside former Police frontman Sting, and British singer-songwriter Mark Knopfler on a charity project.
He said: “Sting occasionally FaceTimes us, weirdly I always end up being in the bath.
"We were in the studio the other day. I did a charity thing with him and Mark Knopfler.
I just did some guitar stuff, which was the most f***ing nerve-wracking thing ever.
"Going in to do a guitar take on a Mark Knopfler song — he’s one of the best guitarists ever. Springsteen’s on it as well.”
The musician admitted earlier this year he had set his sights on cracking America.
He said of his goals for the year: "Write and record another record, tour that record. Go out to America, start doing stuff out there because we've not really scratched the surface of the States.
"It's flying over here and it's starting to fly in Europe."
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