Your daily dose of Springsteen originals and covers
Step back from the guacamole dip, put the chicken fingers down, and turn your television ALL the way up: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play the Super Bowl! Watch Bruce’s video journal, full performance, and more highlights from this date inside.
Steel Mill opens for Black Sabbath, Bruce makes a Tonight Show appearance, and it’s the world premiere of “It’s the Little Things That Count.” More highlights inside.
An ode to never growing up that never gets old.
David Bowie recorded a tremendous cover of Bruce’s “Growin’ Up” back in 1973, but it languished in the vaults for 17 years before it saw the light of day. Take a listen inside.
My last show of 2012 was a nice Wrecking Ball capstone, with lots of small but satisfying surprises.
No one could have known that this was Clarence’s final show. But it almost seems like Bruce did, because it’s hard to imagine a more fitting tribute to their friendship.
“Growin’ Up” almost had a twin sibling. Take a listen to the first verse of what might have been.
Bruce breaks the longest-American-show-ever record for the fourth time in two weeks while delivering a dream setlist in Philadelphia.
A hurricane-induced rainout leads to a scorching show before a small but mighty audience in Virginia Beach.
The River Tour begins its morph into the “Autobiography Tour” as the ten-show victory lap kicks off in East Rutherford.