Bruce Springsteen will deliver an unusual show tonight in Chicago: as announced weeks ago, Bruce and the E Street Band will perform (among other songs) the full Born to Run album. It is yet unknown why he choose to play the album in full at only two shows on this tour (Chicago and Nashville) but there’s no doubt this is a big incentive for tonight’s attendees. There’s only one precedent: the benefit show for the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, in May of 2008, when Springsteen also performed the full Darkness on the Edge of Town album.
And exactly 31 years ago, Springsteen was playing at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey, exhilarating versions of some of the songs from the Born to Run album, including the title song. Those were the days:
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