Bruce Springsteen has said that The Rolling Stones’ 1964 song ‘It’s All Over Now’ helped push him towards becoming a frontman after he was dismissed from his first band. Frustrated by the setback, he spent the night learning Keith Richards’ guitar solo, which convinced him he could take a more prominent role on stage; the episode became an important early turning point in his musical development.

The article places this influence alongside Springsteen’s wider admiration for 1960s artists. He credited The Beatles’ ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ with inspiring him to form a band and Bob Dylan with shaping his approach to songwriting, while the Beatles’ 1964 Ed Sullivan appearance helped fuel America’s garage-band boom. Springsteen later described ‘It’s All Over Now’ as the first solo he learnt and said he practised it until he could play a reasonable version.