Bruce covered “Not Fade Away” as far back as 1971 and as recently as last summer. It’s always at the ready for an impromptu team-up–watch some of best ones inside.
Month: April 2015
Listen in on a 1988 soundcheck, where Bruce mashes up two Van Morrison classics.
Frequently sound checked but never performed, the unabashedly romantic “Let It Be Me” seemed perfectly suited for the Tunnel of Love Tour.
Bruce first covered The Crystals’ 1963 hit around the same time he recorded “Born to Run.” That’s almost certainly not a coincidence.
When Bruce played the Apollo Theater for the first time, he worked up a special arrangement of The Temptations’ 1964 breakout hit for the occasion.
Bruce debuted his cover of “When You Walk in the Room” at his legendary stand at the Bottom Line; he reprised it more than thirty years later.
Richie Havens’ adaptation of the 19th century “Come Life, Shaker Life” became a standard show-closing encore for Steel Mill.
A rusty E Street Band lumbered through their first attempt at Big Joe Turner’s rock and roll standard, but they more than made up for it 18 years later.
Bruce covered it several times over the years, as far back as 1971–but it took until 2009 before a taper could capture Bruce covering Chuck Berry’s seminal classic, “Roll Over Beethoven.”