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1973: Bruce opens for the Paul Winter Consort for the second of four nights at My Father’s Place on Long Island.
1974: Bruce and the band open for Black Oak Arkansas at Kent State University, and the school’s reviewer does not have a particularly good time. After the show, Bruce attends a house party at the residence of the student responsible for bringing Bruce to campus. In a torn jacket and boots with holes, Bruce says to another student, “man we’ve been at this a long time, I just hope we can keep the band together a little while longer, I think we are getting close.”
1975: Bruce guests with Southside Johnny and Steve Van Zandt’s Blackberry Booze Band at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park.
1981: On American Top 40, host Casey Kasem introduces “Hungry Heart” with the story of Bruce’s trip to Mexico with his father.
1983: Bruce records “Shut Out the Light” and “One Love.” The former will be released as a 1984 B-side (and on Tracks fifteen years later); the latter is unreleased to this day.
1985: The second of two nights at the Greensboro Coliseum on the Born in the U.S.A. tour.
1986: Bruce and most of the E Street Band play a benefit show for the Freehold 3M plant workers at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. The event and local impact is covered by TV news media.
2009: NPR begins streaming Bruce’s upcoming album, Working on a Dream, for free for one week prior to its release.
2012: “We Take Care of Our Own” is released as a digital download single in advance of the release of Wrecking Ball.
2014: High Hopes reaches #1 in the U.K., making it Bruce’s tenth #1 album in that country.
2016: The River Tour moves on to Chicago. In memory of Glenn Frey, who died the day before, Bruce performs an acoustic “Take It Easy” in the encore. This is only night two of the tour, and Bruce is a little rusty. Listen to him forget how to start “No Surrender.” Twice.
2017: Bruce and the E Street Band rehearse in Perth for the kick-off of their Australian summer tour.
2018: Springsteen on Broadway continues its theatrical run at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City.
Hey Ken, 1983: “Shut Out The Light” was initially released as a B-Side to “Born In The U.S.A.” in late 1984.
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