Bruce Springsteen’s mother Adele dead at 98 after long battle with Alzheimer’s disease

Bruce Springsteen’s mother Adele has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 98.

The rock-and-roll star, 74, announced the devastating news of his mother’s passing Thursday with a tribute on his personal Instagram account, which commenced with the date of her birth and her death.

“Adele Springsteen – May 4, 1925 – January 31, 2024,” the post began. “I remember in the morning mom hearing your alarm clock ring. I’d lie in bed and listen to you getting ready for work, the sound of your makeup case on the sink. And the ladies at the office all lipstick, perfume and rustling skirts, how proud and happy you always looked walking home from work.”

“It ain’t no phone call on Sunday, flowers or a Mother’s Day card,” he continued. “It ain’t no house on the hill with a garden and a nice little yard. I’ve got my hot rod down on Bond Street I’m older but you’ll know me in a glance. We’ll find us a Little rock ‘n roll bar and we’ll go out and dance.”

A video of Adele dancing with “The Boss” to swing music was featured alongside the caption.

The Post has reached out to Springsteen’s reps for comment.

“My mother loves to dance,” Springsteen once said during a 2021 performance of his hit show “Springsteen on Broadway.” “She grew up in the ‘40s… [with] the big bands and the swing bands, and that was a time when dancing was an existential act.”

The New Jersey native, who credits his mother for setting him on a musical path early in his childhood and renting his first guitar at the age of seven, has been candid throughout his career about Adele’s battle with Alzheimer’s.

“She’s 95 and she’s 10 years into Alzheimer’s and that’s taken a lot away from us,” he confessed onstage. “But the need to dance hasn’t left her.”

“She can’t speak. She can’t stand. She can’t feed herself. But when she sees me, there is always a smile. Still a smile. And there’s still a kiss,” Springsteen said. “And there’s a sound which she makes when she sees me. It’s just the sound but I know it means ‘I love you.’ And when I put on Glen Miller and she starts moving in her chair — she does, she does — she starts reaching out for me, to take her in my arms once more and to dance with her across the floor.”

Springsteen continued, “This is an essential part of mom’s spirit, it’s who she is. It’s beyond language and it’s more powerful than memory. It’s the embodiment. This is what she has put her trust in and lived her life by and which, despite all she has suffered, she carries on with to this moment, as if life’s beauty never deserted her. I love her.”

Adele Ann was born in 1925 in Bay Ridge. She worked as a legal secretary and married Bruce’s father Douglas F. Springsteen, who worked as a bus driver, in between 1947 and 1949.

They were married until his death in 1998.

Adele is survived by Bruce, her daughter-in-law Patti Scialfa, 70, daughters Virginia, 73, and Pamela, and her grandchildren Evan, 33, Jessica, 32, and Samuel, 30.