New for 2023: Video for 1999
1968: The Castiles headline two shows at the Off Broad Street Coffee House in Red Bank.
1972: Bruce starts a six-night stand opening for Dave Van Ronk at Max’s Kansas City in New York.
1974: Bruce cancels an outdoor gig at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts to make room for ongoing Born to Run recording sessions.
1975: Bruce and the E Street Band bring the Born to Run Tour to Pittsburgh’s Syria Mosque, where future friend and collaborator Joe Grushecky is in attendance.
1976: Mike Appel’s lawsuit against Bruce gets underway, as a judge places a preliminary injunction on Bruce, prohibiting him from recording with Jon Landau.
1978: Bruce and the E Street Band play one of their best shows of the Darkness Tour at The Agora in Cleveland, a free anniversary show for local radio station WMMS, with tickets awarded by lottery. The show is broadcast live on WMMS and affiliate stations, and it is available today as part of Bruce’s official archive series–get it here.
1981: Bruce’s scheduled River Tour gig in Detroit is postponed by three days.
1984: At Night Four of Ten at the Meadowlands during the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, J. T. Bowen guest-stars for a one-time-only (until 2011) cover of “A Woman’s Got the Power,” played for Bruce’s mom, who is in the audience along with his father.
1985: The Born in the U.S.A. stadium tour lands at Soldier Field in Chicago, and the show is captured in stellar quality.
1987: Bruce and the E Street Band play a mostly-covers set at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park for the second week running.
1989: Born in the U.S.A. is certified 11x multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
1991: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. is certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, eighteen years after its initial release.
1996: Bruce stops by the Great Northern Bar and Grill in Whitefish, Montana–a state in which he has never played before–and joins the house band on stage for two songs. The Fanatics have been hired for the wedding of Toby Scott, Bruce’s long-time sound man and archivist, so Bruce puts them through their paces.
1999: Night Thirteen of fifteen at the Meadowlands sees the Reunion Tour premiere and one-off performance of “Frankie,” not heard from in 23 years. During “Spirit in the Night,” Bruce opens the show with “Darkness on the Edge of Town” (the second and last time to date that song has ever opened a show) and invites lifelong friend (and recent conga convert) Steve Eitelberg to join him on stage, making good on an alcohol-fueled promise. (Check out the story below.)
2003: Bruce and the band play their second of three nights at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on the Rising Tour’s stadium leg.
2005: Devils & Dust is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.
2017: It’s official: Bruce Inc. confirms months of rumors and announces Springsteen on Broadway will debut in the fall. Fans worldwide immediately convulse with anxiety over ticket prices (as much as $850) and the new Verified Fan system, which promises to dampen secondary market resales.
2018: Springsteen on Broadway continues its theatrical run at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City.
