Tag Archives: Bruce Springsteen

My favourite live music in 2024

Posted on December 24, 2024 by John S

I’d been thinking that I hadn’t been to as many concerts as usual this year. So, on a train journey recently I counted them up and found there were 40, not counting festivals. Not exactly a fallow year! And I’ve … Continue reading →

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Bruce Springsteen at Wembley Stadium, 25 July 2024

Posted on August 2, 2024 by John S

Another year, another Bruce Springsteen concert. Last year it was at Hyde Park. I enjoyed it very much – the song selection was great – but we were standing in a field watching the nearby big screen. The concert could … Continue reading →

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Hyde Park, 6 July 2023

Posted on July 11, 2023 by John S

It’s been seven years since Bruce and the E Street Band played in the UK. I saw them in 2016 at Wembley Stadium. A great show it was too, though the best of all was Wembley in 2013, when they … Continue reading →

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My Top Twenty Albums of 2020

Posted on December 24, 2020 by John S

2020… A year to forget in so many respects. But a year in which the music didn’t die, despite all the restrictions put on it. Quite the opposite in fact – without the solace and inspiration of music all the … Continue reading →

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My Top Ten Albums of 2019

Posted on December 14, 2019 by John S

I always enjoy compiling this list and it’s been particularly difficult this year to decide what should be No 1. There are four or five records that, at some point, I’ve thought, this is definitely going to be No 1. … Continue reading →

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2018 – A Year in Music

Posted on December 27, 2018 by John S

2018 – what a year!. Politically it has been turbulent around the world, and in the UK our politicians appear either to have lost their minds or their nerve, as we head towards a break with the European Union which … Continue reading →

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Bruce Springsteen on Broadway, 30 June 2018

Posted on July 2, 2018 by John S

Bruce Springsteen has made the music which has been the most important to me over the course of my adult life. Not always the thing I listen to most, especially these days, but the music I always come back to. … Continue reading →

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2016 – The Year in Music

Posted on December 24, 2016 by John S

In such a politically traumatic year – the year of Brexit and Trump – and a year of many horrors, including Aleppo, the murder of Jo Cox MP here in England, the killings in Berlin just the other day, what … Continue reading →

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“Born to Run” (the autobiography) by Bruce Springsteen

Posted on November 21, 2016 by John S

Bruce Springsteen is responsible for the best record I ever heard – “Darkness on the Edge of Town”. He is responsible for the best concert I ever saw – Wembley in 2013, when he played the whole of “Darkness on … Continue reading →

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Wembley Stadium, 5 June 2016

Posted on June 8, 2016 by John S

So, three years on from Bruce’s last appearance at Wembley, we were back on Sunday to enjoy the latest instalment. Last time, in June 2013, I concluded in my review that it was the best concert that I had ever … Continue reading →

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