lemons a great friend and partner. Clemons was called the “Big Man” because he was 6-foot-5-inch and 270-plus pounds. Perhaps built more for football than the sax. But play the sax he did. And his solos became a signature sound for the E Street Band on many key songs, including "Jungleland," a solo he spent 16 hours perfecting, and "Born To Run," Newscore reported. In recent years, Clemons had been slowed by health woes. He endured major spinal surgery in January 2010 and, at the 2009 Super Bowl, Clemons rose from a wheelchair to perform with Springsteen after double knee replacement surgery. But his health seemed to be improving. In May, he performed with Lady G sax. Goodbye Big Man," tweeted actor Rob Lowe. An original member -- and the oldest member -- of the E Street Band, Clemons also performed with the Grateful Dead, the Jerry Garcia Band, and Ringo Starr's All Star Band. He recorded with a wide range of artists including Aretha Franklin, Roy Orbison and Jackson Browne. He also had his own band called the Temple of Soul. The stage "always feels like home. It's where I belong," Clemons, a former youth counselor, said after performing at a Hard Rock Cafe benefit for Home Safe, a children's charity, in 2010. Born in Norfolk, Va., Clemons was the grandson of a Baptist minister and began playing the saxophone when he was 9. "Nobody played instruments in my family. My father got that bug and said he wants his son to play saxophone. I wanted an electric train for Christmas, but he got me a saxophone. I flipped out," he said in a 1989 interview with the AP. The break with Springsteen and the E Street Band didnsteps to deflate a property bubble and curb real-estate speculation, and though some investors have turned to buying homes further inland where the measures are less harsh, boosting demand and prices in these second and third tier cities. Prices of newly built homes in 67 of the 70 cities covered by the survey rose in May from a year earlier, unchanged from the 67 recorded in April and March, and lower than the 68 recorded in both January and February, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement Saturday. Among major cities, Beijing's newly built home prices rose 0.1% in May from April, when prices rose 0.1% from the previous month. Meanwhile, newly built prices in Shanghai rose 0.2% in May from a month earlier, slower than April's 0.3% month-on-month increase, the bureau said. "Prices are still up in 50 cities, indicating that the government won't loosen its tightening stance," said Jinsong Du, a Credit Suisse analyst, adding that monetary tightening measures such as hikes in interest rates and banks' reserve requirement ratios which aren't directly aimed at the real estate market will be more effective in bringing down prices. Du added he foresees a more subdued private property market for the next 2-3 years and said he expects prices to decline 5-10% this year from a year earlier. Since January 2010, policy planners have introduced administrative and monetary tightening measures to curb speculation, including hiking down-payment requirements on mortgages for second homes to 60% from 40% and raising the amount of cash banks must hold in reserve 12 times, essentially reducing the amount of money that banks can lend. May is the fifth month for which China has released house price data for individual cities, after scrapping a monthly index of average property prices in 70 large- and medium-sized cities. "A Hong Kong-listed property developer told me yesterday that while credit conditions are tighter than what he had experienced during the downturn in 2008, sales