New for 2023: Audio for 1985; video for 2009 and 2013
1974: A scheduled E Street Band gig in Memphis is cancelled.
1978: Bruce and the E Street Band bring the Darkness Tour to Berkeley.
1985: Night Two in Paris on the Born in the U.S.A. Tour features the last performance of “Point Blank” in its original arrangement for 23 years.
1989: Bruce makes a guest appearance with Jackson Browne at Bally’s Atlantic City casino, playing “Stay,” “Running on Empty,” and “Sweet Little Sixteen.”
1992: Elliott Murphy guest stars at Bruce’s second night in Paris for World Tour 1992, performing Bruce’s only known performance of “Rock Ballad.”
1998: VH1 airs a “Before They Were Stars” segment on Bruce. Here’s the (not very well fact-checked) segment.
2005: In today’s installment of Legends of Springsteen, Bruce plays six songs to airport staff in the middle of the night during a brief connecting layover in Iceland on the way home from his European solo acoustic tour. This is Bruce’s only “performance” in Iceland to date.
2009: Bruce and the E Street Band tour premiere “Atlantic City” and “I Fought the Law” at their Working on a Dream show in Bern, Switzerland.
2013: Bruce headlines Hard Rock Calling in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where Bruce plays his Born in the U.S.A. album start-to-finish. Zac Brown guests on “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” and Bruce closes with an acoustic “My Lucky Day” (replacing the setlisted “Thunder Road”). The full-album portion of the show will be included with Bruce’s High Hopes album the following year.
2018: Springsteen on Broadway continues its theatrical run at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City. Kylie Minogue and Amber Heard are in attendance tonight.
2021: Bruce releases the 24th installment of his E Street Radio show, From My Home to Yours, entitled “Night Time is the Right Time.”
That evening, Springsteen on Broadway continues its return engagement at the St. James Theater in New York City, and Jon Stewart, Patti Hansen, and Michael Kors are in attendance.
