If you think Bruce Springsteen is a saint, you haven’t been listening properly Thanks to a TV ad and a drink-driving charge, the Boss has been called a sell-out and a hypocrite. But he's never pretended to be perfect Bruce Springsteen in his now pulled TV advertisement for Jeep Credit: YouTube “It’s so hard to be a saint in the city” as Bruce Springsteen sang on his 1973 debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. As if to prove his own point, albeit some four decades later, it has emerged that the 71-year-old rock star faces charges of drunk driving, following an arrest on November 14 last year, just 15 miles from Asbury Park. To make things worse, the man they call the Boss, renowned amongst fans for his steadfast idealism and innate morality, stands accused of hypocrisy, having just made an appearance driving a Jeep in a car commercial.