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This week we’ve celebrated the 40th anniversary of the release of Bruce’s second album, The Wild The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, published November 5th 1973. And there’s no doubt one of the masterpieces from that album is the closing song, «New York City Serenade».

Bruce composed it in 1973 when he used parts of two previously written songs (“New York City Song” and “Vibes Man”) to create this masterpiece. Pianist David Sancious was vital in the creation, with his beautiful piano parts and because he took care of the marvelous string arrangements. The song debuted live at Max’s Kansas City in July of 1973, with Sancious in the band playing the piano (and using a mellotron to recreate the string parts).

Bruce is now offering an official video of the song, as it was performed in Rome in July 2013, during the Wrecking Ball Tour.

This year’s Stand Up For Heroes benefit show, which moved from the Beacon Theatre to the Theatre at Madison Square Garden, featured the usual combination of jokes and music that Bruce has been offering in past years. Yesterday Bruce delivered acoustic versions of  «Dancing in the Dark» and «If I Should Fall Behind» (this one as a duet with Patti Scialfa), but the big surprise was a phenomenal version of the 2013 recording of «Dream Baby Dream», with Bruce sitting at the pump organ and using some pre-recorded sounds (the same ones as the studio version recently released thru Spotify).

Bruce’s electric guitar was then auctioned and fetched $250,000. Bruce then sang a bit of «Mystery Train».

(The full 3-hour show, with Roger Waters, Jon Stewart and others, is available at this link from Youtube)

Bruce’s full performance:

New official video from the Wrecking Ball tour. «Local Hero», live at Leeds on July 24th, 2013.

Bruce Springsteen is touring South Africa in 2014! Promoter Big Concerts announced three shows today:

January 28th and 29th, 2014: Bellville Velodrome, Cape Town
February 1^st, 2014: FNB Stadium, Johannesburg. 

Tickets go on sale for Johannesburg on Wednesday 30^th October and Cape Town on Friday 1^st November available from www.bigconcerts.co.za and Computicket.