The Boss is the present that retains on giving — even on his personal birthday.
As Bruce Springsteen turns 75 on Monday, he isn’t slowing down on the subject of rocking for marathon exhibits — or releasing music to his followers.
The New Jersey legend — who was “Born to Run” when he got here into this world on Sept. 23, 1949, in Lengthy Department, NJ, and hasn’t taken his foot off the fuel since — has at all times been beneficiant along with his time on the stage. However he’s additionally been free-handed with releasing music to the Bruce stans, who’ve adopted him all through his Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame profession.
Springsteen loyalists have been rewarded with not one however two reside albums because the rocker hit the three-quarter century mark.
There was the short turnaround of his set on the Sea.Hear.Now Competition on Sept 15 in his Asbury Park, NJ, stomping grounds — now out there for streaming or on CD at nugs.web.
The three-hour-plus present — the ultimate US live performance for Springsteen and the E Avenue Band of their first North American tour collectively since 2016 — grew to become an instantaneous basic with deep-cut fan faves and hometown hero tales.
It was the primary time within the tour that Springsteen and crew carried out “Blinded By the Gentle” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).” In addition they welcomed again “Jungleland” and “Jersey Lady.”
However maybe probably the most poignant second was when Springsteen’s spouse — and longtime E Avenue Band member — Patti Scialfa joined her husband for “Harder Than the Relaxation” after it was revealed that she had been battling blood most cancers within the documentary “Street Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Avenue Band” that premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition earlier this month.
The Sea.Hear.Now set additionally included reside renditions of such Springsteen classics as “Hungry Coronary heart, “Thunder Street,” “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)” and “Dancing within the Darkish.”
Springsteen’s different new reside album, “The Stay Sequence: Songs of Conscience,” is a set of his politically aware songs forward of the Nov. 5 presidential election, that includes performances recorded from 1981 to 2023.
Among the many songs featured are “This Land Is Your Land,” “The Promised Land,” “Solar Metropolis,” “The Rising” and “Born within the USA,” which was initially launched 40 years in the past.
And Springsteen — ceaselessly feisty at 75 — has already let it’s recognized that he has no plans to retire from the street.
“We’ve been round 50 f—king years, and we ain’t quitting!” he stated, denying rumors of a farewell tour at Philadelphia’s Residents Financial institution Park final month.
“Hell no … Farewell to what? Hundreds of individuals screaming your identify? Yeah, I wanna stop that … I ain’t goin’ wherever.”