The E Street Band took the stage under a bright summer sun matched only by the bright shiny Scottish faces. This was only the third time Bruce has played a show in Glasgow, but with as much fun as he was having on stage, he ought to come here more often. The show opened strongly…
Were you among the lucky ones in attendance at Wembley Stadium on Saturday? The Times gave the concert a 5 star review! Bruce and his band played for more than three hours without a break!
On November 18, 1975, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played their first ever concert outside of America. The Hammersmith Odeon London ’75 show marked the beginning of a near 40-year love affair between Bruce and the United Kingdom. From the moment he stepped onto stage as a young 26-year-old and played to London,…
Bruce lends his voice to agit8 , the new campaign launched by Bono’s ONE organization. Agit8 is a music-based campaign that uses the greatest protest songs of all time to promote the fight against extreme poverty. Check out the video below of Bruce performing a special version of “The Promised Land” at Camden Lock in…
Tickets go on sale today in most countries for the highly anticipated worldwide cinema broadcast of Springsteen & I on July 22. (Tickets will go on sale in the US next Friday, June 14.) Movie theaters in over 50 countries around the globe will broadcast this unique music documentary and collective filmmaking experience, created for…
Who do you love more, your mom or your dad? What is the best Bruce concert you’ve seen? Unanswerable questions. But chances are that if you’ve seen Springsteen play Milan’s San Siro Stadium, it’s a show that has to be in the running. 1985, 2003, 2008, 2012… every single show here has been special in…
You could tell it would be an epic night right from the beginning. Not from the acoustic pre-show—an early one, almost three hours before the actual concert, Bruce surprising us with a nice pair of “The Promised Land” and “Growin’ Up.” You could tell from the “real” opening of the sold-out show, which picked up exactly…
“Who’ll Stop the Rain” didn’t need to be played in Hannover. The warm and sunny weather in the Northern part of Germany made a huge contrast to the pouring rain of the previous two shows, in Munich in particular, and Bruce and the band clearly appreciated it. He told the Hannover crowd, “It was cold…
On this unseasonably cold evening, after eight straight hours of rain leading up to the outdoor concert at Munich’s Olympiastadion, there was really no choice but for Bruce to start with “Who’ll Stop the Rain” — and he did, solo acoustic. Unfortunately, the rain did not stop. But neither did the show. While the band…
Ninety-two years ago, the coffin of Enrico Caruso was carried inside the Church of San Francesco di Paola, while twenty thousand Neapolitans gathered together in the opposite Piazza del Plebiscito were singing “‘O Sole Mio”, the song that ensured to the tenor a number one hit on Billboard Charts in 1916. Last night, in that…
