On this date: The legendary Darkness on the Edge of Town Tour begins! Hear the soundcheck and opening inside, and watch tour premieres and rarities galore from this date in history.
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On this date: Nils Lofgren joins the E Street Band, Bruce enjoys a final night out as a bachelor, Bruce plays “Dream Baby Dream” for the first time, and more.
On this date: Bruce receives Sweden’s Polar Music Prize. Watch full footage plus more highlights inside.
Bruce wasn’t Steel Mill’s only songwriter. Co-lead vocalist Robbin Thompson contributed his own song to the band’s set lists, but their version was a far cry from Mercy Flight’s original.
Long before “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” nineteen-year-old Bruce Springsteen adapted another great work of literature into song.
Is a discarded fifty-years-old, thirty-minutes-long opus really the secret origin of “Kitty’s Back,” “Cadillac Ranch,” and “One Step Up?” Just listen and decide for yourself.
Although it’s believed that Bruce played blues classic “I’m Sitting on Top of the World” on multiple occasions, only one recording and definitively dated performance survives. Listen to it inside.
We’re in obscure territory today with this instrumental jam from the Child/Steel Mill era.