It happened November 30 when Darlene Love performed her annual “Love For The Holidays” show at Town Hall in New York City. Out came Bruce with a special mission: to present the legendary singer with a platinum album for sales in excess of one million copies for the 1963 pioneering ‘A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector’ which introduced her “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

Stevie Van Zandt, Darlene Love, Steve Earle and Sam Moore were honored by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University April 15 in Long Branch.