Fans of the legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen are in shock today after it was revealed that he was arrested back in November on suspicion of driving under the influence in New Jersey.

People Magazine reported that Springsteen, 71, was arrested on Nov. 14 at the Gateway National Recreation Area in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. He was given three citations for reckless driving, consuming alcohol in a closed area and driving while intoxicated.

“Springsteen was cooperative throughout the process,” a National Park Service spokesperson said.

News of Springsteen’s arrest was broken by TMZ, which said he has a court date coming up in the next few weeks.

This comes days after Springsteen starred in his first ever commercial, appearing in a jeep ad that aired during the Super Bowl.

“It’s no secret the middle has been a hard place to get to lately, between red and blue, between servant and citizen, between our freedom and our fear,” he says in the ad. “Now fear has never been the best of who we are, and as for freedom, it’s not the property of just the fortunate few, it belongs to us all. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, it’s what connects us, and we need that connection. We need the middle.”

Springsteen was arrested just three weeks after the release of his album Letter to You, which was a huge hit and allowed him to become the first artist with a Top 5 album in six different decades.

“I heard something of mine from 1975 on a record the other day, and I said, ‘That was about seven or eight lives ago,'” he told AARP Magazine back in September. “It was a full and entire life of its own. And I lived that one, and it was a great one, and now I’m living another one.”

In this interview, Springsteen had said that he was looking forward to the end of the coronavirus pandemic, as all off us are.

“All I can tell you is, when this experience is over, I am going to throw the wildest party you’ve ever seen,” he told the magazine at the time. “And you, my friends, are all invited.”

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