Bruce Springsteen received a Kennedy Center Honor.
 Springsteen seemed to realize this a few years hence when he spoke humorously of his late father during his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech:I've gotta thank him becausewhat would I conceivably have written about without him? I mean, you can imagine that if everything had gone great between us, we would have had disaster
 The Topps company marked the support in a commemorative trading card set, in which Springsteen makes an appearance on card #59, "the 'O' Street Band

