A local musician — someone named Bruce Springsteen — emerged a few minutes earlier to jam two songs with McCartney:“Here’s to 80 more years of glory days,” Springsteen said.
Springsteen appeared 29 songs into the show, the last on the North American leg of McCartney’s “Got Back” tour. He previously performed “I Saw Her Standing There” with McCartney at the latter’s Aug. 5, 2013, show at London’s Hyde Park.
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Later, Jon Bon Jovi came onstage with a handful of balloons and gave a quick “Happy Birthday” serenade to McCartney, who turns 80 on Saturday.
In the show’s biggest surprise, McCartney stepped into a supporting role for Springsteen’s “Glory Days,” playing bass and singing backing vocals until the end, when he exchanged call-and-response “All right!”s and “Oh yeah!”s with Springsteen before singing a bit of the song himself. They then sang and played a feverishly fast version of The Beatles hit “I Wanna Be Your Man” (originally sung by Ringo, but why not?) together.
Later, during the show’s encores, Springsteen returned to play guitar on “The End,” trading brief, hard-hitting solos with McCartney and the two guitarists in McCartney’s band, Rusty Anderson and Brian Ray.
During the encore to Paul McCartney’s marathon set at MetLife Stadium Thursday night, a certain mop of silver, feathered hair emerged from the wings.
In one hand, Jon Bon Jovi held a huge bundle of balloons. In the other, a microphone, to surprise McCartney just two days before his 80th birthday — and moments before the rock legend was about to perform his apt Beatles classic “Birthday.” (NJ.COM)
As McCartney was asking the crowd if anyone had a birthday coming up, Bon Jovi interrupted him, quipping “I know it’s somebody’s birthday.”
“Who’s that?” McCartney wondered, before turning around to see the Jersey rock star approaching.
Bon Jovi continued: “Welcome to New Jersey, I have 60,000 people who want to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you.”
Recently Bruce went on stage at Coldplay concert in NJ.
When playing the Meadowlands in New Jersey, it’s a nice gesture for the visiting artist to pay homage to the area’s patron saint, Bruce Springsteen. But on Sunday night (June 5th) at the second show of their two-night run at MetLife Stadium, Coldplay took the Bruce worship one step further by inviting none other than The Boss himself to take the stage for two songs.
Chris Martin introduced Springsteen to the stunned crowd, sharing that he has the words “Working on a Dream” — the title track from Bruce’s 2009 album — tattooed on his left bicep. (Consequence)
“Hello, New Jersey!” Springsteen greeted the audience before saying, “Well, like Chris said, he had this song tattooed on his arm for a while, so I guess I’ve got to sing it.”
Before Coldplay concert, Bruce Springsteen made his first live appearance of 2022 Sunday evening when he honored longtime friend Jon Stewart, who received the 23rd annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
During the show, Springsteen linked up with Gary Clark Jr. to cover the Beatles’ “Come Together ”.
During the ceremony, Springsteen also performed an acoustic version of Born To Run.
Springsteen’s performance of “Come Together” with Gary Clark Jr marks his first time performing the Beatles classic since the 1994 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony where he played it with Axl Rose to honor John Lennon.
Bruce Springsteen phoned up SiriusXM’s E Street Radio Wednesday and gave host Jim Rotolo an update on his touring plans.(Rolling Stone)
“We’ll be out there,” he said. “We hoped to be out there this year, but I just didn’t have the confidence or want to take the risk for my audience that it was going to be OK. We put it off a little while. But we’re working on plans to get it all together now, so you’ll be seeing the E Street Band pretty soon.”
Springsteen and the E Street Band originally planned on touring in 2020 behind Letter to You, but the pandemic made anything besides a two-song appearance on Saturday Night Live an impossibility. Late last year, as the Delta wave subsided, plans began coming together for a 2022 world tour. A handful of posters advertising upcoming dates appeared across Europe, including a June 10th, 2022 show at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany.
The shows were scuttled once Omicron hit near the end of 2021 and the prospects for major concerts this year once again seemed questionable. But Omicron has largely subsided and the concert calendar is packed with major tours and festivals.
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