New for 2024: Review for 1981; video for 2012
1969: Child headlines at the eighth grade graduation concert at Blessed Sacrament Regional School in Margate, New Jersey.
1972: Recording sessions begin for Bruce’s first album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Bruce records five solo tracks today: “Arabian Nights,” “Cowboys of the Sea,” “Growin’ Up,” “Lady and the Doctor,” and “Street Queen.” Only “Growin’ Up” will eventually be released, and even that song will be re-recorded later in the month before being selected for the album.
1973: Bruce and the E Street Band open for Chicago at the Onondaga County War Memorial Auditorium in Syracuse, New York. The local paper mis-identifies Bruce, and they aren’t even close: somehow, they refer to him as “Bris Christy.”
1976: Bruce and most of the E Street Band join Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes on stage at a private party for Crawdaddy magazine.
1981: In Birmingham, Pete Townshend makes a guest appearance in the encores of the first show of the last European stand of the River Tour. In the main set, Bruce performs “Drive All Night” for the last time for 24 years.
1992: MTV’s Guide to Summer features a spotlight on Bruce’s upcoming World Tour 1992.
1999: “My Hometown” makes its Reunion Tour premiere at the Estadio de la Comunidad in Madrid.
2005: Bruce plays a solo acoustic show at the Datch Forum in Milan, Italy, where he plays the tour premieres of “Open All Night” and “Lost in the Flood.”
2009: At the final night in Sweden for the Working on a Dream Tour, Bruce tour premieres “The River,” “Fade Away,” (its first E Street outing since 1981) and “Surprise, Surprise.”
2012: Bruce plays a marathon show at San Siro in Milan, Italy. At over three and a half hours, it’s one of his longest shows to date.
2018: Springsteen on Broadway continues its theatrical run at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City.
2021: Bruce announces a return engagement of Springsteen on Broadway to help re-open Broadway during a lull in the Great Pandemic.
