New for 2024: Review for 1988
1971: The Bruce Springsteen Band is in residency at the Student Prince in Asbury Park.
1978: Bruce and the E Street Band make a Darkness Tour stop at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Columbus.
1981: Bruce makes a guest appearance with The Pretenders on “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” at Perkins Palace in Pasadena, taking a solo verse towards the end.
1984: Bruce and the E Street Band play their second of two nights at The Centrum in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1986: At the MTV Video Music Awards, “Glory Days” loses in the Best Male Video category to Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” and in the Best Overall Performance in a Video category to David Bowie and Mick Jagger’s “Dancing in the Street.”
1988: The Human Rights Now! Tour is in Paris for the second of two nights, and Bruce and the E Street Band close the show. “Because the Night” is a tour premiere.
2006: Joe Grushecky releases his A Good Life album, featuring several guest appearances by Bruce, including the only studio recording of “Code of Silence.”
2016: Bruce and the E Street Band make up for an earlier hurricane-induced rainout in Virginia Beach, playing an amazing chronological set for a reduced crowd in an already intimate outdoor venue. (The show was originally scheduled for a Saturday night on a holiday weekend–when the show was rescheduled for Labor Day, many fans already had their return trip booked for that day, as school started for many the following morning.) Apparently the string section couldn’t make it either, so Bruce opens the show with an acoustic “For You” on piano instead. “The E Street Shuffle” and “Factory” are tour premieres tonight. For more highlights from this show, see my Where the Band Was report.
2018: Springsteen on Broadway continues its theatrical run at the Walter Kerr Theater in New York City. In attendance tonight: actor Rob Lowe.
