Sunday
I’d been told great things about Swedish Springsteen fans, but here’s the prob: apart from two or three friends I’ve made along the way (hello Magnus, hello Anna), I’d never actually met any. I’d heard the stories though – breaking the Ullevi stadium in 1985; bars spinning the tunes on loop in the run up…
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Tuesday
I ate four burgers on my Bruce Springsteen weekend in Gothenburg, Sweden. Oops. But I’m just going to tell you about one of them – partly because it was the best, and also because Nils Lofgren was there having a burger too! (More on that in a sec.) With Steve (@GreasyLake on Twitter) and Nils Anyway,…
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Sunday
Excuse me a second while I load this blog post with capital letters and gushing, joyful words. I’m just so EXCITED about the BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN weekend I spent in Coventry and London Wembley with some mega-great people. Here you can see a few of them: But I’m getting ahead of myself. Bruce and the E…
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Thursday
WARNING. This blog post comes with the risk of dropping a couple of hundred beans on Springsteen prints. The good news is you can also buy a book for far less. As you may have seen, a book of fiiiiine Springsteen and the E Street Band pics is due to be published by Reel Art…
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Monday
As far as boardwalks go, this is a pretty good one. In fact, in my experience of boardwalks, I’d say it’s the best. This is the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Bruce Springsteen describes it as his “adopted hometown”, the town that has inspired lyric after lyric – songs laced with stories of the…
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Thursday
If you are flying all the way from London to South Africa for three Bruce Springsteen concerts in Cape Town, the logical thing to do would be to go to the fourth concert in Johannesburg too. I’m not very logical, so I didn’t realise this until the day after Springsteen’s third and final Cape Town…
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Sunday
“You are a very boring person going to all of these concerts so many times on your own.” I was on a high after my third night of watching Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band play in Cape Town, South Africa, to be greeted with this statement by my taxi driver. I’ve been called…
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Monday
Ten years ago I became a little bit obsessed, as I have a tendency to do, with the saying Carpe Diem. I heard it somewhere, I think from some hippie traveller with dread locks and patchwork trousers, and my friend and I latched onto it, hollering it at every opportunity presented to us. “Another cup…
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Sunday
Not long ago I asked Bruce Springsteen fans on my Burgers and Bruce Facebook and Twitter to tell me their favourite little known or rarely played Springsteen songs, and the version they love the most too. I helped the Springsteen fan over at Mr Hyde put together a little list, but you sent me so…
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Sunday
75 burgers. 8 Bruce Springsteen concerts. 6 flights. 15 trains. 4 car journeys. 8 queues. 100s Bruce Buds. 4 Grey Hairs. 2 inches. 1 dress size. 54 blog posts. 1 important burger chat. That’s the edited version for those tight on time. Have I really eaten that many burgers? I won’t talk about them all,…
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