Bruce Springsteen has opened up about this year's passing of both Prince and David Bowie.

Speaking with Rolling Stone, The Boss says that he felt a special "kinship" with Prince and that the music world will never be the same without the two stars.

"It was a terrible shame. It was a great loss and a tragedy," Springsteen said, adding: "I felt a great kinship with Prince.

When I'd go to see [Prince], I'd say, 'Oh, man, OK, back to the drawing board.'

There was a film of him on the Arsenio Hall show, where he plays a series of songs in a row.

It's just some of the greatest showmanship I've ever seen. And he knew everything. He knew all about it, and then could put it to work.

Just since the Sixties and Seventies and your Sam and Daves and your James Browns, he's one of the greatest showmen to come along.

I studied that stuff a lot and put as much of it to use as I can with my talents.

But he just took it to another level."

He adds,"I couldn't believe it when I heard [about Prince's] death.

Any death gives you renewed sight. It's a part of what the dead pass on to us.

A chance to look at our lives and look at the world again. It's just a powerful experience."