Teased by The Boss

For his 60th birthday, Wenner threw a $260,000 party starring his favourite celebrities: Yoko Ono, Robbie Robertson, Robin Williams, Bette Midler and Larry David.

The party hosts were Jane Wenner and [Wenner’s lover] Matt Nye, who sat at separate tables. A drunk Robin Williams unleashed a semi-coherent poem that cast Jann and Matt as the stars of Brokeback Mountain: ‘You a gay cowboy!’

Wenner loved it. Indeed he had never been happier – that is, until Bruce Springsteen got up and performed a song he wrote especially for Wenner: ‘I got to know the man a little bit, by and by/‘I’ve never seen so much innocence and cynicism walk side by side/‘I never guessed a man whose magazine once changed my life/‘Would one day want to have a threesome with my wife.’

Springsteen, pictured, and Wenner had an affectionate bond.

‘I don’t know how other people describe Jann,’ said Springsteen, ‘but he’s emotional. Good friend.’