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The original Eras tour: how Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA conquered the world

At 11pm on October 2 1985, at the end of a four-night stand at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Bruce Springsteen called time on one of the most profitable rock tours of the decade. Spanning 15-months, 156 concerts and 14 countries, the 15-month Born in the USA. tour played to more than 5.3 million people in arenas and stadiums in which not a single ticket went unsold. With a combined gross of $80 million – or 250 million quid when adjusted for inflation – this most profitable of travelling circuses was the Eras tour of its time.

As distinct from Taylor Swift, though, the 36-year old son of New Jersey was not a natural pop star. Rather, he was a rocker. Even with his colour setting dialled up to the max, he seemed at odds with the shiny materialism of the Eighties. Backed by the all-conquering E Street Band, onstage in LA, Springsteen spoke on behalf of aid organisations working for the unemployed and of the perils of governmental monkey business in Central America. Some of his biggest hits were deeply weird. “At night, I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train running through the middle of my head,” he sang on I’m On Fire, one of the many singles harvested from the album Born in the USA.

Today sees the LP re-released as a special red-vinyl edition in a gatefold sleeve with a booklet featuring archive material and new sleeve notes.

Just as they do now, back in 1985, the patrons on Main Street regarded Bruce Springsteen as their representative in song. “The Boss means America,” a ticketholder at the Coliseum told the Los Angeles Times. “He represents not the rich or the beautiful, not [LA] or New York, but the other people, the common people, the people in-between. When he sings, he sings about love, America and working. When he’s onstage, he’s there for everybody, even the people in the back row. He doesn’t condescend. I’m a bartender, and he’s the kind of guy that you can sit down with and have a beer.”

On the face of it, Born in the USA represented a notable change from the album that preceded it. Unveiled in 1982, the acoustic sparseness of Nebraska (essentially a two-track demo recorded in a single day) featured a cast of characters diminished to the point where violence was only ever a heartbeat away.

They were defiant, too, for all it was worth. “At the end of every hard-earned day people find some reason to believe,” Springsteen sang of a man looking down at a dead dog “like if he stood there long enough that dog’d get up and run”. Believe all you want, he seemed to be saying, but you’re wasting your time.

Born in the USA, meanwhile, offered the possibility of hope. “I’ll shake the world off my shoulders,” promised the narrator of the blockbusting leadoff single Dancing In The Dark. Getting into the swing of the age, the track was accompanied by a music video aired on MTV with the kind of ubiquity normally reserved for Madonna. Directed by Brian De Palma, the concert clip ends, famously, with Springsteen cutting a rug onstage with a young Courtney Cox. As if confirming its mainstream credentials, Alfonso Ribeiro later revealed that Cox’s moves provided the inspiration for “The Carlton” dance beloved of his character in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.

The starting point for it all, though, was a long way removed from Hollywood film directors and canned-laughter sitcoms. In 1981, while Bruce Springsteen was pulling together the material for Nebraska, he penned a further seven songs that would form the spine of its high profile successor. Listeners who may have been duped by the pop-star music videos or the brightly coloured Annie Leibovitz photo on the album’s front cover might care to note that at least one of these compositions would confirm that the differences between the two LPs were presentational rather than substantive. What’s more, this meaningful distinction would cause no end of grief.

With his feet up on the coffee table at his home in Colts Neck, New Jersey, the process began with Springsteen pondering a work-in-progress inspired in part by a script sent to him by the writer Paul Schrader. Picking out chords on his sunburst Gibson J200 acoustic guitar, he then turned his head towards a few scribbled lines in a notebook about the plight of veterans returned from the war in Vietnam. The title was taken from the screenplay at his side. It was called Born in the USA.

As he would later write in his autobiography, Born To Run, from 2016, “Born in the USA remains one of my greatest and most misunderstood pieces of music. The combination of its ‘down’ blues verses and its ‘up’ declarative choruses, its demand for the right of a ‘critical’ patriotic voice along with pride of birth, was too seemingly conflicting (or just a bother!) for some of its more carefree, less discerning listeners… Records are often auditory Rorschach tests; we hear what we want to hear.”

It’s worth considering, I think, how this most iconic of tracks might have been received had it appeared in downtrodden form on Nebraska. In fact, I would say it seems all but obvious that its story of a beleaguered serviceman who can’t catch a break back home in the States, or the brother who lost his mind at the Battle of Khe Sahn, would have been right at home there.

Backed by the E Street Band in pummelling form, however, the song became a case study in just how easily songs with readily discernible lyrics can be misconstrued. The trade magazine Cash Box described it as being a “straight-ahead anthem that celebrates America’s traditional values”, for example, while Libertarian columnist George Will wrote “I have not got a clue about Springsteen’s politics” – wow, no kidding – but that Born In The USA’s chorus was “a grand, cheerful affirmation”. Will even suggested to Ronald Reagan’s handlers that The Boss might fancy endorsing their candidate in his campaign for re-election as president in the general election of 1984. The approach was duly rebuffed.

Nice try. But as Greil Marcus wrote in a review for the magazine Artforum, the song is about nothing less than “the refusal of the country to treat Vietnam veterans as something more than non-union workers in an enterprise conducted off the books. It is about the debt the country owes to those who suffered the violation of the principles on which [it] was founded, and by which it has justified itself ever since. In other words, the song links Vietnam veterans to the Vietnamese – or rather (because… Springsteen personalises everything he touches) one veteran tries to make that link.”

All of which is pretty heavy fare for a record that has since become the 20 th bestselling album of all time. After debuting on the American Billboard Hot 200 at a somewhat pallid number nine, Bruce Springsteen’s seventh LP rose to the top of the chart two weeks later. A residency in the top-10 lasting an astounding 84 weeks made it the highest selling album of 1985. Across the Atlantic, after arriving on the chart at number two, The Boss at last reached the summit of the British listings eight months later.

In a marketing strategy pioneered by Michael Jackson’s Thriller , the album’s momentum was sustained by a steady drip-feed of singles and attendant music videos. In releasing a whopping seven stand-alone tracks – along with Dancing In The Dark and I’m On Fire, there came the title track, My Hometown, Glory Days, I’m Goin’ Down and Cover Me – Columbia Records evidently disagreed with the assessment of their signatory and his manager, Jon Landau, that the LP should spawn no more than two singles. The suits called it right. Each of the seven songs found their way into the US top 10.

“Bruce Springsteen has enlarged his onetime cult following to immense proportions,” wrote Philip Elwood in a piece for the San Francisco Examiner published in the autumn of 1984. “[Concert promoter] Bill Graham… told [me] this week that he ‘offered Springsteen’s people six sold-out nights’ in the Bay Area, something he had never done before.” Instead, 150,000 people applied for the 27,000 tickets available for a pair of dates at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. When the Born In The U.S.A Tour wended its way back to Northern California, in September the following year, The Boss performed for more than 100,000 ticketholders over two nights at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum stadium right next door.

It really didn’t get much bigger than this. Certainly, when the representatives from the Garden State visited Europe in the summer of 1985, it was to play, and to fill, the continent’s largest venues. Around this time, many were the people who regarded a three-night stand at Wembley Stadium – not to mention dates at Roundhay Park, in Leeds, and Newcastle’s St James’s Park – as evidence of overnight success. Not so. Four years earlier, at Wembley Arena, Bruce Springsteen and his group had wowed 84,000 people over seven nights on the tour in support of The River LP. The only difference being, that crowd had been drummed out of the woodwork by an album rather than its singles.

In other words, this was no fleeting dalliance. Four years later, in his review of the tour, the critic Richard Williams noted how “on Wednesday evening, in the vastness of Wembley Stadium, [Springsteen] chose a rare moment of calm towards the end of his three-hour concert to remind his 72,000 listeners of the importance he attaches to that historic relationship [with London]. It was one of several signs that, despite his new status as the tabloid newspapers’ favourite pop sensation, he continues to respond primarily to the whisper of his conscience.”

In time – in fact, rather quickly – these whispers would lead Bruce Springsteen away from the blinding light of pop stardom. He’d remain a megastar, of course, but he’d had his fun. On the US leg of tour in support of the Tunnel Of Love album, from 1988, he played in arenas on dates that were sometimes announced at only a few days’ notice. After breaking up the E Street Band – the old gang reunited in 1999 – he even went so far as to ponder his status as “a rich man in a poor man’s shirt”. Thing was, though, the authenticity of it all couldn’t be denied, not even by him. At no point in the last 40 years has he ever issued a song that sounds as if it was written by a millionaire.

It’s quite the trick, really, considering the extent of his fortune. At the end of his Born in the U.S.A. tour, for the first time in his life, Springsteen met with his accountant. “I would shake the hand of a Mr Gerald Breslauer,” he writes in his memoir, “who would tell me that I had earned a figure that at the time seemed so outrageous that I had to ban it from thought… I couldn’t contextualise it in any meaningful way. So I didn’t. My first luxury as a successful rock icon would be the luxury not to think about, to downright ignore, my luxuries. [It] worked for me.”

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Born In The U.S.A. Tour

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The  Born in the U.S.A. Tour  was the supporting concert tour of  Bruce Springsteen 's  Born in the U.S.A.  album. It was his longest and most successful tour to date. It featured a physically transformed Springsteen; after two years of bodybuilding, the singer had bulked up considerably. The tour was the first since the 1974 portions of the  Born to Run tours without guitarist  Steven Van Zandt , who decided to go solo after recording the album with the grop. Van Zandt, who was replaced by  Nils Lofgren , would appear a few times throughout the tour and in some of the music videos to promote the album. It was also the first tour to feature Springsteen's future wife,  Patti Scialfa .

The tour started in June 1984 and went through the United States and to Canada. In March 1985 the tour went to Australia, Japan and Europe. It then headed back for a second leg of the U.S. tour in which Springsteen and the  E Street Band  played to sold-out professional football stadiums. The tour finished in October 1985 in Los Angeles.

The tour grossed $80–90 million overall. Of that, $34 million came from Springsteen's summer 1985 stadium dates in North America. [1]  The  Born in the U.S.A.  album was inside the top 10 of the  Billboard  200 during the entire tour. Springsteen also was enjoying a hit single from the album (there were seven in total) during any moment of the tour. The album along with Springsteen's previous album,  Nebraska , which he did not tour to promote, were performed in their entirety throughout the tour. Total attendance was 3.9 million.

• 1.1 Special guests
• 2 Broadcasts and Recordings
• 3 Postponed dates

Personnel [ ]

• Bruce Springsteen  – lead vocals, guitars, harmonica
• Clarence Clemons  – saxophone, congas, percussion, background vocals
• Garry Tallent  – bass guitar
• Danny Federici  – organ, glockenspiel, piano, synthesizer
• Roy Bittan  – piano, synthesizer, background vocals
• Max Weinberg  – drums
• Nils Lofgren  – guitars, background vocals
• Patti Scialfa  – background vocals, synthesizer, tambourine

Special guests [ ]

• Courteney Cox (6/29/84 – danced with Springsteen on " Dancing in the Dark " which was captured in the music video)
• J.T. Bowan (8/9/84)
• John Entwistle (8/11/84)
• Southside Johnny (8/12/84)
• Steven Van Zandt  (8/20/84, 12/14/84, 12/16/84, 12/17/84, 7/3/85, 7/4/85, 7/6/85, 7/7/85, 8/22/85)
• The Miami Horns  (8/19/84, 8/20/84, 9/14/84)
• Pamela Springsteen (10/22/84 – danced with Bruce on "Dancing in the Dark")
• Gary U.S. Bonds (1/18/85)
• Robbin Thompson (1/18/85)
• Eric Clapton (6/1/85)
• Pete Townshend (6/1/85)
• Jon Landau  (9/29/85, 10/2/85)
• Julianne Philips (10/2/85 – danced with Bruce on "Dancing in the Dark")

Broadcasts and Recordings [ ]

Nearly half of  Live/1975-85  consists of songs from the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, incorporating songs from the August 6, August 19, and August 20 shows in 1984, and the August 19, August 21, and September 30 shows in 1985.

Several shows have been released as part of the Bruce Springsteen Archives:

• Brendan Byrne Arena, New Jersey 1984 , released May 13, 2015
• Brendan Byrne Arena, August 20, 1984 , released March 2, 2018
• Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Sept 27, 1985 , released April 5, 2019
• Brendan Byrne Arena, August 6, 1984 , released September 18, 2020
• Giants Stadium, August 22, 1985 released July 23, 2021

Postponed dates [ ]

• 1 Cindy Mizelle
• 2 Born In The U.S.A. Tour
• 3 Curt Ramm

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Posted by Tony Poolan on September 30, 2014 at 9:24 am

For me this was the beginning of the end of my love of Bruce – with the exception of Tunnel of Love.

I had had the 1978 Winterland bootleg on tape – spectacular – and he was astonishing at the gig at the City Hall in 1981 – which was a privilege to attend. It was also the first time I had seen a lighting guy climb a rope ladder to a pod suspended 60ft from the stage!

The new muscle bound Bruce had lost something for me. Yes he still gave it all and the band were terrific. – but although he was always a little over the top on the showbiz stuff suddenly – for me anyway – he was heading over the top.

The songs were ostensibly less intense and I found that difficult.

Just me I suppose.

It was still a good show and he held the audience as he always has but I lost him shortly after as a hero.

Posted by vintagerock on September 30, 2014 at 10:20 am

I guess after the amazing show in 1981 this was always going to be an anti-climax Cheers Peter

Posted by Bruce fan on January 4, 2015 at 1:00 am

YES JUST YOU. THE SHOW WAS OUTSTANDING

Posted by Andrea Joice on February 26, 2016 at 6:36 pm

Got to see Bruce for free at St James’ Park 4th June 1985 after not being able to get tickets (went to listen outside the stadium and was given ticket stubs from a man who’d had too much to drink). Missed only 15 minutes of his amazing performance and have to say myself and my boyfriend (now husband of 27 years) were bowled over! The atmosphere was electric; Bruce’s performance outstanding and considering it was the early days of football stadium gigs, went without a hitch (that we were aware of). X

Posted by vintagerock on February 27, 2016 at 12:07 am

Happy days Andrea Best wishes Peter

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Bruce Springsteen closes his 15-month world tour tonight and Wednesday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as more than just the biggest star in rock. He’s shown that he has the potential to return rock to its role as social catalyst and to mobilize a new activist audience. On Friday, in the first of his four Coliseum shows, Springsteen showed where the emphasis should be, praising those who are working to improve conditions for the unemployed. “Without them,” he told 83,000 fans, “what I do up here doesn’t amount to more than words.”

It’s not surprising that Springsteen has been trivialized and misinterpreted--by everyone from the pro wrestlers who use “Born in the U.S.A.” as a jingoistic jingle, to President Reagan, who attempted to suggest that they share values by citing what he called Springsteen’s “message of hope.”

On the contrary, Springsteen sees America through the eyes of the disillusioned and disenfranchised whose families, communities, livelihoods and very lives are falling apart. At the Coliseum, Springsteen made his usual eloquent plea for support of organizations aiding the unemployed, but he further radicalized his message with an implied endorsement of draft resistance, cautioning the “young people” in the audience that “blind faith in your leaders will get you killed” and specifically mentioning Central America before playing an explosive version of Edwin Starr’s anti-war soul smash “War.”

In the face of Springsteen’s unprecedented success, the media have tried to find a sociological basis for his popularity. Newsweek speaks of the rock star as an “international symbol of America.” Other commentators call him America’s new “populist conscience” and “spirit.”

But how does Springsteen’s audience see him? Is he simply the latest pop sensation or is he touching a deeper nerve? Is he gaining his following through his integrity and social vision, or by wiggling his rear end and making his music increasingly catchy?

As the range of his constituency spreads, the responses to Springsteen become more varied--perhaps more shallow on the fringes, while deepening in intensity among the longtime faithful and committed newcomers. In an effort to explore the nature of the bond between Springsteen and his fans, Calendar’s John Horn and John Voland spoke to a variety of fans at the Coliseum on Friday.

And here’s how the fans see him. . .

Bruce Mocklin, 23, graduate student, Los Angeles:

“I think he’s become part of the American Dream. I mean, he’s been inducted--even if he hasn’t really applied. There’s all kinds of dark and light in what he’s doing, but it’s not a (phony) patriotic thing. It’s real . And I think that’s what people are responding to. It’s not some critical concept Bruce is trying out.”

Denise Yemawine, 19, waitress and student, Cypress:

“He represents a healthy reaction to all the flash and glitter that rock seems to be all about these days. He’s not just a pop phenomenon--a temporary thing. He really delivers . . . straight-ahead, no nonsense rock ‘n’ roll. . . . The life he sings about isn’t always pretty, and he’s not really (blindly) patriotic ‘cause he sees what kind of promises America’s made and hasn’t kept. He’s exactly what rock needs: a conscience.

Jim Dobbs, 42, art history teacher, Cal Poly Pomona, Laguna Beach:

“His energy is wonderful and positive. Someone is finally speaking to 40-year-olds and Vietnam veterans. I think his message is totally accurate: that things aren’t always as perfect as we would want them to be. A lot of people misperceive him. He’s positive, but he’s not celebrating the wonders of America. He’s not jingoistic. It might be a flag that he’s waving, but it’s a tattered one.”

Ric Middleton, 27, Palmdale:

“To me, he’s a mom’s apple pie sort of musician. He talks about middle-class America. He’s from New Jersey, but I grew up in Ohio and I experienced the same things he sings about. They closed factories in our town, too. “

Kim Kleiber, 29, personnel director, Playa del Rey:

“It’s terrific that he donates money to the food banks and the steelworkers and all that, but he’s no patriotic hero or anything. He’s a rocker, and this is a great rock ‘n’ roll show. That’s why I’m here. This isn’t a pep rally; it’s a concert.”

Diane Roland, 27, controller, Studio City:

“He delivers what he promises. There’s no flash, but the songs talk about values . . . they’re simple and direct.”

Marlo Williams, 44, Captain, Ontario Fire Dept., Alta Loma:

“He’s real. He stands for what America should be. He loves his country. We’ve got kids, and he’s a good influence. He’s a strong combination of both good music and a good personality. He does push-ups instead of drugs. I respect that.”

Dianna Ogden, 30, housewife/student, Lawndale:

“He’s totally motivating. He gives me a natural high. It’s his music, his body. . . . And in his music, you can understand every word. It’s simple and straightforward. He’s a regular guy, not a superstar.”

Michael Ogden, 30, sheet-metal mechanic, Lawndale:

“I’m at the concert because I like to party and I like his music. I bought one of his albums, ‘Born in the U.S.A.,’ and didn’t play it all. But then two wrestlers, Barry Wyndham and Mike Rotondo, started to use ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ as their theme song and I liked it.”

Gary Shaw, 26, bartender, Thousand Oaks:

“The Boss means America. He represents not the rich or the beautiful, not Los Angeles or New York, but the other people, the common people, the people in between. When the Boss sings, he sings about love, America and working. When he’s on stage, he’s there for everybody, even the people in the back row. He doesn’t condescend. I’m a bartender, and he’s the kind of guy that you can sit down and have a beer with.”

Victor Frisbie Jr., 27, farmer, Bakersfield:

“Hey, I’m in for the party. Who’s playing here, anyway?”

Gary Vaughan, 37, truck driver, El Monte:

“I haven’t been to a concert in 15 years, since Black Oak Arkansas played. But Bruce sings about things that I can relate to. He talks about everyday people. He lives a modest life, and I can appreciate that.”

Mike Mullen, 24, used-car salesman, National City:

“I’m here because it’s a concert and there are a lot of girls here. Springsteen’s music is good, but he’s kind of a hypocritical. He’s up there singing about how he’s an American and how it’s great to be born in the U.S.A., and the guy (never served in Vietnam). It’s great that he’s making a lot of money. I like that. But I wish he wouldn’t play it down so much. He’s not as poor as he makes you think.”

Jenny Dobbs, 7, student, Laguna Beach:

“He’s a good singer and I like the words of his songs. I think he’ll last until he’s 42.”

Kenneth Austad, 24, loan accountant, La Mesa:

“I got the day off and he’s in town. His music, at least some of it, isn’t that bad. I have two of his albums, but he’s no big deal.”

Anett Surdyk, 20, student, Phoenix:

“Hey, I got two speeding tickets coming out here to see him. He doesn’t need flares and fireworks and glitter to give a good concert. He’s a regular guy. He gets up there with his $5 guitar and sings. And there’s a message in every song . . . without anything about drugs. He’s not conceited. He’s all-American. And he’s got a cute behind.

Jim Robbins, 44, electronics distributor, Los Angeles:

“We should toss out all that stuff about patriotic rock, because country music performers have that stuff down cold. What Springsteen’s got is a kind of driving, forceful music that everybody--and I mean everybody--can relate to. Besides, if he can face 80,000 people (who are going) absolutely nuts over him and not have that kind of adoration turn him into some ego cheesecake . . . he must have something--a real direct line of communication with his fans.”

Sylvia Newton, 32, electronics distributor, Los Angeles:

“He’s like a musical common denominator. I mean, look around: Is this really a rock ‘n’ roll crowd? The guy’s so direct; he’s got this grass-roots energy working for him. I just think it’s a shame he’s gotten so big he’s got to play football stadiums . . .

Dave Ryba, 38, musician, Philadelphia:

“I wanna tell you right off, if I hear any more (nonsense) about Springsteen being the embodiment of the American Dream, I’m gonna throw up. It’s the music that matters, and the music is damn good.”

Ken Russo, 37, musician, Trenton, N.J.:

“I don’t pay much attention to the import of the lyrics either . . . the music’s so much there , so present--even after all these years. I’ve been a fan of his since “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” (his 1973 debut album), and there’s still that communication. It’s great. But you can keep all the critical commentary.”

Jodi Tose, 26, Los Angeles:

“He’s true to his people and gives them exactly what they want. He’s no hero or anything . . . just a great performer . . . maybe the greatest.”

Tony Skvarla, 44, production supervisor, Los Angeles:

“Bruce seems a lot more American, more clean-cut and sincere than anybody else in music. He seems to give so much of himself to his audience; I don’t see how that can be an act for all these years. He’d go crazy if it were.”

Marcia Moore, 14, student, Woodland Hills:

“I don’t know about the hero bit, and I don’t care. He’s just real cute and his music’s so bitchin’. It doesn’t matter what all those old guys (journalists) are writing about him. He’s just Bruce, and that’s enough.”

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Rock star legend Bruce Springsteen worried that his fans would be killed at his 1985 concert at Slane Castle, it has been revealed.

The crowd at the gig — Bruce Springsteen's first major outdoor show— was the largest he’d ever seen. Around 95,000 fans poured into the County Meath venue and the crush of people made the New Jersey singer think about canceling the rest of his sell-out European tour that year, The Belfast Telegraph  reported.

The Boss revealed details of the show in his 2016 autobiography, Born to Run .

He writes: "The crowd closest to the stage were deeply into their Guinness and dangerously swaying from left to right. They were opening up gaping holes amongst themselves, as audience members by the dozens fell to the muddy ground vanishing for unbearable seconds 'til righted once again by their neighbors."

Springsteen writes that he watched red-faced fans pulled out of the crowd and passed across barriers to be taken to medical tents. He worried that someone was going to be hurt or killed and that it would be his fault.

Bruce Springsteen plays Slane in 1985 A look back at Bruce Springsteen's legendary gig at Slane in 1985. The crowd of 65,000 was the largest he'd ever played before and tickets cost just £15!! Publiée par Entertainment on RTÉ sur Vendredi 27 mai 2016

"It was a sight way too hairy for my tender eyes,” he adds

He says he kept on performing but he was thinking he couldn't continue putting his fans in situations where they "could be grievously injured.”

"I was in a pure rage and simmering panic," he writes.

At intermission, he had what he deemed a "highly charged" debate backstage with his manager Jon Landau about canceling his entire tour.

"I could not face what was happening in front of the stage at Slane on a nightly basis. It was irresponsible and violated the protective instinct for my audience I prided myself on."

His manager asked him to postpone the decision to cancel the tour after a few more concerts. Springsteen writes that in the second half of the show at Slane, the crowd seemed to calm down.

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"I observed there was a sketchy but ritual orderliness to what appeared from the stage to be pure chaos. The crowd protected one another. If you fell, the nearest person to your left or right reached down, grabbed an arm and pulled you upright. It wasn't pretty (or to my eye safe) but it worked."

Springsteen also talks about his Irish roots in the book, linking his Irish ancestors to a strain of mental illness in his family.

In a section entitled ‘The Irish,’ Springsteen writes that in 1852, his great-great-grandmother Ann Garrity left Ireland at the age of 14 with two sisters and moved to Freehold, New Jersey, where the singer was born.

Springsteen, who is candid about his own fight against depression, writes that several of his Irish relatives struggled with mental problems.

"A lot of trouble came in the blood of my people who hailed from the Emerald Isle,” he says.

"I don't know where it started but a serious strain of mental illness drifts through those of us who are here, seeming to randomly pick off a cousin, an aunt, a son, a grandma and unfortunately my dad."

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He writes about his battle of depression during dinner at an unspecified location in Ireland with his wife Patti Scialfa, whose mother came from Belfast, and a group of friends. He describes how he was "doing his best to fake that I was a sane person.”

Springsteen says: "It was a terrifying window into mental debilitation and brought back the ghost of my father's mental illness and my family's history and taunted me with the possibility that even after all I had done, all I'd accomplished, I could fall to the same path."

In the book, the rock star also talks about his friendship with U2, saying “ I feel a great bond with the band.”

He adds that Bono and his companions "also happen to be some of the nicest people I've ever met in the music business.”

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Translated text: Osaka Castle Hall Osaka Japan April 22 & 23, 1985. Digitally Remastered.

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Contrary to long career, one of the frequency of visit to Japan is extremely small heavyweights artists, from the first visit to Japan performances of Springsteen, made a final performance that was done in this work was completely recorded in high-quality sound at Osaka Castle Hall you. There is also the fact that first Japan tour that took place along with the smash hit album “Born In The USA”, in all eight performances are both great success, in this final performance, we describe the Acknowledgements to the great Japanese hospitality by Bruce have been. The last day of the first concert in Japan that would have become the memories even for blues, I was complete recording here at the high-quality sound.

Set list is opening in the album title track “Born In The USA”. Strong melody and vocals will explode from one shot eyes. Song that sang the veterans of the Vietnam War, also lyrics that “has been Come with instructions to kill the yellow race”, but is complicated for the Japanese, it has been as it is sung. The showcase is the “not Help Falling In Love” in imitation style of Elvis in the encore, further and “Twist And Shout” and “Do You Love Me” in medley. I am done with hot remain Bukkake through the concert over a long period of time.

Interesting, is where you have put the MC of Japanese everywhere. At this time, Bruce had been already in their 30s, naive feelings of American youth, when speak Japanese in “that voice” reminiscent of I Vitelloni, there are those that come with a jerk in mind. Also as a bonus track, from the day before of the Osaka performances, and has recorded with choice songs that were not played in the main part of the final performance. Please see the track list for details.

Complete recording at high quality the last day of the Osaka Castle Hall performances April 23, 1985 that it was from the first Japan tour of Bruce Springsteen. . Permanent preservation Athletic press board of beautiful picture disc specification. With Japanese band.

長いキャリアに反して、来日の頻度が極端に少ない大物アーティストのひとり、スプリングスティーンの初来日公演から、大阪城ホールで行なわれた最終公演を高音質で完全収録したのが本作になります。大ヒットアルバム「Born In The USA」に伴って行なわれた初の日本公演ということもあり、全８公演はいずれも大盛況で、この最終公演では、ブルースによる素晴らしい日本の歓待への謝辞が述べられています。ブルースにとっても想い出となったであろう初来日公演の最終日を、ここに高音質にて完全収録しました。  セットリストはアルバムタイトル曲「Born In The USA」で開幕。力強い曲調とヴォーカルが一発目から炸裂します。ベトナム戦争の帰還兵を歌った曲で、「黄色人種を殺してこいと命令された」という歌詞も、日本人にとっては複雑なものですが、そのまま歌われています。アンコールではエルヴィスのモノマネ風に「好きにならずにいられない」を、さらに「Twist And Shout」と「Do You Love Me」をメドレーで披露。長時間に渡るコンサートを熱いままぶっ通しで行なっています。  興味深いのは、随所に日本語のMCを入れているところです。この時ブルースは既に30代になっていましたが、アメリカ青年のナイーブな心情、青春群像を想起させる「あの声」で日本語をしゃべられると、心にグッとくるものがあります。またボーナストラックとしては、前日の大阪公演より、本編の最終公演で演奏されなかった曲をチョイスして収録しています。詳細はトラックリストをご覧ください。  ブルーススプリングスティーンの初来日公演より最終日となった1985年4月23日大阪城ホール公演を高音質にて完全収録。。美しいピクチャー・ディスク仕様の永久保存がっちりプレス盤。日本語帯付。  OSAKA CASTLE HALL OSAKA JAPAN APRIL 23, 1985 DISC ONE 01. Born In The USA 02. Out In The Street 03. Darlington County 04. Atlantic City 05. Point Blank 06. Working On The Highway 07. Prove It All Night 08. Glory Days 09. The Promised Land 10. My Hometown DISC TWO 01. Badlands 02. Thunder Road 03. Cover Me 04. Dancing In The Dark 05. Hungry Heart 06. Cadillac Ranch 07. Sherry Darling 08. No Surrender 09. Backstreets 10. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) DISC THREE 01. Bobby Jean 02. Born To Run 03. Can’t Help Falling In Love 04. Twist And Shout – Do You Love Me OSAKA CASTLE HALL OSAKA JAPAN APRIL 22, 1985 05. Johnny 99 06. Darkness On The Edge Of Town 07. The River 08. I’m On Fire 09. Born To Run 10. Devil With A Blue Dress On

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"I'm on the mend and can't wait to see you all next year," Springsteen said in a statement.

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He may be tougher than the rest, but the Boss still knows when it's time to take a break.

On Wednesday, Bruce Springsteen announced on social media that he and the E Street Band would be postponing all of their remaining 2023 tour dates as the singer continues to receive treatment for peptic ulcer disease.

"Thanks to all my friends and fans for your good wishes, encouragement, and support," Springsteen said in an Instagram statement . "I'm on the mend and can't wait to see you all next year."

All remaining tour dates, including those postponed earlier this month , will now be rescheduled at their original venues in 2024. Tickets to the events will remain valid. Those who are unable to attend the new dates, which will be revealed next week, will have 30 days to request a refund.

Earlier this month, the 73-year-old rocker revealed his health diagnosis and postponed several concerts in a social media post . At the time, Springsteen had already postponed two shows in Philadelphia after falling ill, though no details were given about the nature of his illness. Those dates were rescheduled for August 2024.

"Over here on E Street, we're heartbroken to have to postpone these shows," Springsteen said in a statement. "First, apologies to our fabulous Philly fans who we missed a few weeks ago. We'll be back to pick these shows up and then some. Thank you for your understanding and support. We've been having a blast at our US shows and we're looking forward to more great times. We'll be back soon. Love and God bless all, Bruce."

Springsteen kicked off his tour on Feb. 1 in Tampa, Fla., and has been criss-crossing the globe all year, mostly without a hitch, save for a brief fall onstage in Amsterdam in May. The tour was originally slated to wrap up on Dec. 12 in San Francisco.

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The former first lady joined the rock icon onstage during his concert April 28 in Barcelona, Spain. She sang the background vocals and jammed on a tambourine alongside Springsteen during his performance of "Glory Days."

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Michelle Obama and her husband, Barack Obama, were in Barcelona with Steven Spielberg,  who is married to Capshaw,  for the Springsteen concert. According to  Reuters , the group visited some of the city's famous sites, including the Sagrada Família basilica and the Picasso museum, before the show Friday.

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Springsteen and Barack Obama are longtime friends. The singer  performed at rallies  for the then-presidential candidate during his 2008 campaign. Barack Obama  also awarded Springsteen  the nation's highest honor for civilians, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 2016.

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“We're back!”

That's the word from Bruce Springsteen moments after the E Street Band's tour relaunch at the Footprint Center in Phoenix on March 19. It comes courtesy of a backstage hype reel on his Instagram account, posted March 20.

The video starts with a look at the guitars of the E Street band, and then Springsteen picking his guitar from tech Kevin Buell under the stage. Springsteen then exhorts E Street Band members as they climb the stairs to the stage. Springsteen proceeds to march up the steps, dramatically backlit like a scene out of the Second Coming.

Fast forward neatly three hours and Springsteen comes down the steps and gets into a circle with the band.      

“Great show everybody!” says Springsteen, flailing his arms in the air. “I'll see you in Las Vegas, Nevada!”

Then a leaning smile into the camera: “We're back!”

In Phoenix, Springsteen and E Street played 29 songs in about two hours and 45 minutes. The setlist largely adhered to the 2023 setlist with a few changes and a sign request for “Twist and Shout.”

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“Bruce looked and sounded great,” said Pete Maimone of North Brunswick via email. “The entire band was as good as ever — very high energy as promised.  There were some setlist changes, but nothing earth-shattering. Everyone around us walked out loving it.”

The band lineup was the same as the 2023 shows with Max Weinberg, drums; Steven Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren, guitars; Garry Tallent, bass; Roy Bittan and Charles Giordano, keyboards; Jake Clemons, saxophone; Soozie Tyrell, fiddle and vocals; the E Street Band Horns — Curt Ramm and Barry Danielian on trumpet, Eddie Manion on sax, and Ozzie Melendez on trombone; and the E Street Choir — Anthony Almonte, Curtis King, Michelle Moore, Lisa Lowell and Ada Dyer.

Almonte also plays percussion. Band member Patti Scialfa, as was the case for most of last year, was not on stage.

Springsteen postponed the tour last September due to a bout with peptic ulcer disease. Up next is the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Friday, March 22.

“Thanks,” said Springsteen from the stage in Phoenix at the close of the show. “I want to apologize if there was any discomfort over moving the show last time — I had a (blanking) bellyache! I hope we didn't inconvenience you too much.”

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