Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band showed their strength this Friday night at a sold-out concert at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, attended by some 60,000 people, kicking off their tour of Europe. Hello Barcelona, hello Catalonia! One, two, three, four,” he shouted as he took the stage with the first chords of “No Surrender,” a greeting that was accompanied by a burst of applause from the audience and marked by an energy that he carried throughout the concert, which lasted three hours Surrounded by the musicians of his powerful band and dressed in black from head to toe, ‘The Boss’ (El Jefe) inaugurated the repertoire with ‘Ghosts’ and ‘Letter to you’ , from his album ‘Letter to you’ (2020) . . , and has continued to review hits such as ‘Prove it all night’, from the album ‘Darkness on the edge of town’ (1978). he is accompanied by the guitars and voices of Stevie Van Zandt, Nils Lofgren and Patti Scialfa –the latter, Sprinsteen’s wife–; Roy Bittan on piano and synthesizer; Charlie Giordano on keyboards; bassist Garry Tallent; drummer Max Weinberg; saxophonist Jake Clemons and Soozie Tyrell on violin, guitar and vocal accompaniment Related News standard No The Obamas are revolutionizing Barcelona Cristian Reino The former US president, his wife and Steven Spielberg, in the Catalan capital to watch Bruce Springsteen’s concert to attend. He continued to win over audiences with other big hits such as ‘The Promised Land’ and ‘Out in the Street’, in which the musicians exuded virtuosity, followed by ‘Kitty’s Back’ and a version of The Commodores’ ‘Nightshift’, in which he played his guitar. left and accomplices danced along with the front rows of attendees. In front of an enthusiastic and devoted audience, with thousands of people queuing at the venue since Thursday, Springsteen has shared “Human touch,” “The E Street Shuffle,” and “Mary’s place,” and by way of introduction, he has exclaimed: « Catalonia, Barcelona! We appreciate, we appreciate, we appreciate! (We love you, we love you, we love you!). «The ‘here’ and the ‘now’ life» The show continued in style as the musicians joined forces for the version of ‘Pay me my money down’, originally by The Weavers, then moved them with ‘Last man standing’, which Springsteen introduced by recalling his beginnings in music and “emphasizing the importance of living in the ‘here’ and the ‘now'”. “I’ll take you here to the end,” he confessed, touching his chest while singing “Backstreets,” and continued to captivate audiences by covering Patti Smith’s “Because the Night,” an occasion Stevie Van Zandt has taken advantage to reign in the Estadi with a powerful and long guitar solo, followed by ‘She’s the one’, ‘Wrecking ball’ and the epic ‘The rising’. In the image above, Bruce Springsteen (right), with guitarist Steven Van Zandt; Below is a general view of the singer’s fans who were completely elated during the concert; finally the stage with the image of the singer in the foreground on a giant screen. Reuters/Efe The tide of attendees has gone mad with the first bars of “Badlands” and with the introductory harmonica of the electrifying “Thunder Road,” sealed by Jake Clemons showing off his mastery of the sax, and “The Boss” has coped with the final stretch of the evening with the highly anticipated ‘Born in the USA’ and ‘Born to run’. And after saving ‘Glory Days’ and ‘Dancing in the Dark’ for the last fireworks, he sealed the night in style by throwing a party with his band for ‘Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out’ and with an acoustic and intimate version of “I’ll See You in My Dreams,” and before leaving the stage, he has justified the E Street Band as “legendary.” He repeats this Sunday at the Olímpic. It is the first of two concerts he will give in the Catalan capital, where he will perform again on Sunday the 30th – also with sold-out tickets – and has been attended by personalities such as the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle Obama, and filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who landed in town on Thursday and toured several landmarks prior to the concert. Bruce Springsteen, the ‘Boss’, bids his fans farewell after his first concert of this European tour in Barcelona, a city he had not returned to since 2016. A. García / Efe With this concert, the 73-year-old Springsteen returns to Barcelona seven years after his performance at Camp Nou as part of his ‘The River’ tour, and he does so in the same month as the 42nd anniversary of his first concert in the city, in 1981. After the double date in Barcelona, ’The Boss’ will be touring Dublin (Ireland), Paris (France), Ferrara, Rome (Italy), Amsterdam, Landgraaf (Netherlands) , Zurich (Switzerland) and Gothenburg (Sweden) before closing July 25 in Monza (Italy).
Source: La Verdad
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