When Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band took the stage together last night (February 1) in Florida, it had been six years since they had rocked an arena stage together.
But don’t assume the Rock Hall of Famers had been sitting on their hands. In 2017-2018 The Boss performed his hits, alone, with just an acoustic guitar on Broadway. An experience that earned him a special Tony award and reaped more than $110 million at the box office.
The group also recorded three well-received albums: Western Stars (2019), Letter to You (2020), and last year’s R&B covers album Only The Strong Survive.
So when Springsteen grabbed the mic last night he had a lot of catching up to do with the 19,000 screaming fans and their mobile phones.
Setting the table with “No Surrender,” the boisterous Born in the USA-era anthem that celebrated the innocence of those who “learned more from a three-minute record, than we ever learned in school,” and concluding over two-and-a-half hours later with the hopeful “I’ll See You In My Dreams” from Letter to You which proclaims “death is not the end.”
That last phrase must have been music to the ears to both the gray-haired audience (which included Miami Heat President and former head coach Pat Riley, Howard Stern producer Gary “Baba Booey” Dell’abate, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie) as well as many of the players on stage who are in their 70s.
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