The live tributes to David Bowie show no sign of slowing down.
Last night in Pittsburgh, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off their North American tour at the Consol Energy Center, and gave the world their own tribute to the late music and fashion icon. After the Boss and his crew played 1980 double album The River in its entirety, as well as a few other songs, they began their encore with a cover of Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel”.
“I wanna take a moment and just note the passing of our good friend David Bowie,” the 66-year-old Springsteen told the crowd. “David, I don’t know if people know it, but he supported our music way, way, way back in the very, very beginning. 1973, he rang me up and I visited him down in Philly while he was making the Young Americans record. And he covered some of my music, “Hard To Be A Saint In The City” and “Growin’ Up’,” and he was a big supporter of ours. Particularly when …I took the Greyhound bus down to Philadelphia, that’s how early it was. But anyway, we’re thinking of him.”
Hopefully this bit of spontaneity finds its way into the set list for at least a few more weeks: Springsteen’s The River tour comes to Boston’s TD Garden on February 4.
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