Nils Lofgren and, especially, Clarence Clemons must have thought that their stars were forever going to be tied to Bruce Springsteen’s. The sight of Clarence Clemons wielding his saxophone onstage next to ‘The Boss’ was as synonymous with the idea of seeing Bruce in blue jeans and holding a butterscotch Telecaster. “I was shocked, I was hurt,” Clemons told the Orange County Register in 1989 about the end of the band, before adding, “And then I was happy. And that is exactly what he did when he joined Dr John, Preston, Danko, Helm, Keltner, Walsh, Lofgren and Starr in the All-Starr band. Ringo has said that his new band saved him at the end of the 1980s, but it also saved all the stars in it who were reeling from the breakup of their own bands, as well.