…that Bruce Springsteen began a series of shows at the small Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey, during the fabulous Darkness on the Edge of Town tour.
and this is what happened:
Thunder Road (Passaic, NJ 19-9-1978)
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Kitty’s Back – Part 1 (Passaic, NJ 19-9-1978)
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Kitty’s Back – Part 2 (Passaic, NJ 19-9-1978)
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Bruce’s 59th birthday will be celebrated with not one but two fan conventions.
The first convention is «Land of Hope and Dreams», organized by the dutch fanclub Roulette. It’ll take place in Rotterdam on Sept.27th and 28th. It is a big, huge fan convention, with lots of events happening. Check their website for full info. It’s well worth it!
Land of Hope and Dreams website.
For the ones who can’t be in Rotterdam for the Bruce fan Convention… for the ones living far from there and willing to spend a last summer weekend on the Adriatic seaside for a special event: «Glory Days in Rimini», now in its 10th year, something which started in 1999 as a tribute to Springsteen 50th birthday, and going on until today with a full week-end dedicated to Springsteen and American music
Write in your agenda these dates: September 26th and 27th with live music played at the beautiful Rock Island at the pier, free admission, lots of friends and fans from all over Italy and a lot more.
For full info and last year’s show clips and pictures: http://www.glorydaysinrimini.net/
A big part of Springsteen’s discography will be reissued in Spain starting September 21st thru the newspaper El Periódico. The paper will deliver a CD & book every Sunday, and each Springsteen album will feature the new vinyl-replica artwork. Each CD comes with a 36-page book, with text in Spanish, with many unreleased photos, full album and tour reviews and the song’s lyrics (in english). The text has been written by Point Blank’s director Salvador Trepat, who has also helped choose most of the previously unpublished pictures.
The first volume of this CD-book collection is «The Rising» and it will be given away Sept.21st with El Periodico’s Sunday Edition. There’ll be another 15 volumes in consecutive weeks, which will be sold for 9,95 € every Sunday. The collection includes the following albums: Born in the U.S.A., The River (2CD), 
Born to Run, Human Touch, Tunnel of Love, 18 Tracks, Lucky Town, Nebraska, In Concert/MTV Plugged, Live in New York City (2CD), The Ghost of Tom Joad, Greetings from Asbury Park NJ, The Wild The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, Darkness on the Edge of Town y Greatest Hits.
See El Periódico.
First it was «Streets of Philadelphia», later it was «Lift Me Up», «Dead Man Walking» and «Missing», and now it’s just been revealed that Bruce has written a brand new song for Darren Aronofsky‘s new movie «The Wrestler». The song has the same title and closes the film while the credits roll on. The film features actor Micky Rourke and actress Marisa Tomei, and debuts on Sept. 5th at the Venice film festival.
In his blog, director Aronofsky describes Bruce’s song as «a wonderful acoustic piece». Watch out for it at the Toronto International Film Festival (Sept.7th) or at the New York film Festival (Oct.12th).
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band said goodbye to the road with a very long 3 and a half hour concert yesterday at Harleyfest in Milwaukee. The show needed 10 encores to end and was the longest set played since the beginning of the Magic Tour. «Gypsy Biker» opened the set, which featured covers of «Wooly Bully» (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, see video) and «Born to be Wild» (Steppenwolf, see video) .
«Sandy» was dedicated to Danny Federici and his son Jason Federici took the stage to play accordion. Bruce’s farewell words were «We’ll be seein’ ya! We’re just gettin’ started!».
