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Tom Morello talked to Rolling Stone in Sydney, while on tour in Australia with The E Street Band. Morello told the RS reporter:

«I learned about 50 songs in three months for the tour, and every night, 90 minutes til soundcheck, Bruce will text me with seven or eight songs we’ve never played before,» he said with a laugh. «And then during the show, he’ll call up songs we’ve never even discussed – some I’ve never even heard!»

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Bruce’s first show in Melbourne today has been shorter than usual, with 24 songs over 2 hours and 52 minutes. Only four encores, and «My City of Ruins» (roll call included) dropped from the set.

«Out in the Street», «The Promised Land» and «Something in the Night» kick off the show, which includes the crowdsurfing routine on «Hungry Heart», a great «Spirit in the Night», another energic «High Hopes» and the first 2013 appearances in Australia of «Seeds» and «Land of Hope and Dreams».

Bruce picks up some signs from the audience and shows two of them: «Incident» and «Prove it ’78». The second one is chosen and Bruce rocks the house with the fantastic 1978 version of the song, with its long guitar and piano introduction.

Bruce’s final words today: «I promise it won’t be so long before we are back here again. We are loving it here in Australia».

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Sydney’s third and final performance has been nothing but extraordinary. It has been a return to a more classic Wrecking Ball concert set list, similar to those in the first weeks of the tour, opening with «We Take Care of Our Own» and «Wrecking Ball», followed by «Night», «Death to My Hometown» and «Hungry heart» (with crowdsurfing and beer drinking included). After «My City of Ruins», back in its usual spot early in the set, Bruce has been picking sign requests from the crowd, which as a result have brought stellar performances of «Growin’ Up», «The E Street Shuffle», «Prove it all Night» (with ’78 intro) and «Trapped».

A beautiful «The River»  was next, before entering into «party-mode» with the contagious «Pay Me My Money Down», «Darlington County», «Working on the Highway», «Shackled and Drawn» and «Waitin’ on a Sunny Day».

The most intense part of the show featured a stunning «Backstreets», then «The Ghost of Tom Joad», «Badlands» and «Thunder Road» to triumphally close the main set. A rousing «Born in the U.S.A.» opened the encore set, which tonight, after «Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out» featured an extra song after Bruce picked up a request for «Rosalita» from a Spanish fan.

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April 16th (15th in some countries) is the official date for the European release of a new Bruce Springsteen compilation CD titled Collection: 1973-2012. The album is representative of Springsteen’s whole career, since 1973 (his recording career’s first year at Columbia Records, with two albums released that same year) until 2012’s Wrecking Ball.

The album has already been published in Australia to coincide with the tour there. This is the complete song list:

1.Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) 2.Thunder Road 3.Born To Run 4.Badlands 5.The Promised Land 6.Hungry Heart 7.Atlantic City 8.Born In The U.S.A. 9.Dancing In The Dark 10.Brilliant Disguise 11.Human Touch 12.Streets Of Philadelphia 13.The Ghost of Tom Joad 14.The Rising 15.Radio Nowhere 16.Working on a Dream 17.We Take Care of Our Own 18.Wrecking Ball