Bruce Springsteen has paid tribute to “songwriter for the ages” John Prine following his death on Tuesday. The 73-year-old passed away at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee from complications related to the coronavirus.
He was hospitalised last month and placed in intensive care for 13 days after testing positive for Covid-19. Following news of his death, confirmed by his wife and manager, stars flocked to social media to share their condolences, with Springsteen remembering his friend and former collaborator as the “loveliest guy in the world”. “Over here on E Street, we are crushed by the loss of John Prine,” he wrote on Twitter. “John and I were ‘New Dylans’ together in the early ’70s and he was never anything