A historic first ever Glastonbury headline performance in front of 175000 people, is witnessed further by streamed BBC Television coverage. This is the biggest crowd that Bruce Springsteen has ever performed to, around 15,000 more people are present than at Springsteen's Berlin 1988 show. In an astonishing opening, Springsteen remembers Joe Strummer with a cover version of 'Coma Girl' before dedicating a blistering Badlands to the late British Rock Legend. An unfortunate fine for breaking the curfew is levied, as Bruce plays just short of 2 and 3/4 hours of pulsating, life affirming music.
Its a night of high drama, and emotion, young and old alike, present in the company of arguably Rock's greatest live act. The weather holds on a balmy English Summer day, as Glastonbury for ever regarded as the Worlds Greatest Music festival, bows down to the Man they call 'The Boss'. This was a priveledge.
Coma Girl
Badlands
Prove it All Night
My Lucky Day
Outlaw Pete
Out in the Street
Working on a Dream
Seeds
Johnny 99
The Ghost of Tom Joad
Raise Your Hand
Because the Night
No Surrender
Waiting on a Sunny Day
The Promised Land
The River
Lonesome Day
The Rising
Born to Run
Hard Times
Thunder Road
Land of Hope and Dreams
American Land
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark
PRESS
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band put on a show so good it's quasi-religious – for nigh on three hours, Pilton becomes the Promised Land
Dafydd Goff - The Guardian
PRESS
But after that poignant opening, it was all “1, 2, 3, 4” and the “pants-dropping, love-making, Viagra-taking” E Street Band rocking Life and Death and things more important than that. Everyone got sore throats howling the big choruses as they rolled and tumbled down Badlands, Prove It All Night, Because The Night, No Surrender (duetted with Brian Fallon from New Jersey newcomers Gaslight Anthem), Promised Land, Born To Run and more, powerhouse piledrivers no one can match.
Q Magazine
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