The Wembley Stadium Show Recieved a 5 Star Review!
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!
Notes from the road: London
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 Performs “The Promised Land” for ONE’s Agit8 Campaign
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 now on sale around the world for new documentary ‘Springsteen & I’
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…
Notes from the road: Milan
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…
Notes From The Road: Padua
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…
Notes from the road: Hannover
“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…
Notes from the road: Munich
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…
Notes from the road: Naples, Italy
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…
Springsteen & I documentary coming July 22
Coming July 22, the new motion picture Springsteen & I will be broadcast to movie theaters worldwide in an ambitious, simultaneous event. This unique documentary, produced by Ridley Scott Associates and Mr. Wolf, was created for the fans, by the fans, and includes some of Bruce’s most loved songs and previously unseen performances alongside the…