Liverpool. June 4, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

On this special day, we honor Ray and Walter Cichon as well as Bart Haynes, drummer of the Castiles, to whom "The Wall" is dedicated.

The 2007 tour saw Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band getting back to what they do best, supporting an excellent new album. The Oakland show on Oct. 26, 2007 offers outstanding performances of eight tracks from "Magic" in a tight, 23-song set... 📸: Danny Clinch

Library Lions Gala. November 3, 2025.

Frankfurt. June 18, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Backstage, ghouls, goblins and even the Jersey Devil roamed — and this pumpkin-shaped pass was your ticket on Oct. 31, 1980. Happy Halloween from all of us on E Street!

Frankfurt soundcheck. June 18, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Leaving behind what he called a “season of obscurity,” Bruce landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek. That feat, a twin billing typically reserved for presidents and heavyweights, helped introduce him to a national audience 50 years ago this week.

Bruce's Legacy Award acceptance speech at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles. October 18, 2025.

“Streets of Philadelphia” live at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles. October 18, 2025. 🎥: Rob DeMartin

“Atlantic City” live at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles. October 18, 2025. 🎥: Rob DeMartin

“Land of Hope and Dreams” live at the Academy Museum Gala. October 18, 2025. 🎥: Rob DeMartin

U.K. Premiere of "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" at the 69th BFI London Film Festival. October 15, 2025.

"The River" became a two-record set, crafted to feel “like life or an E Street Band show,” as Bruce said. Released 45 years ago tomorrow, "The River" still sounds like what Bruce was searching for: a record big enough to hold it all.

Liverpool. June 2025. 📸: Pam Springsteen

Bruce played the recording of “Born to Run” on Philadelphia’s WMMR in November 1974, its radio debut. 50 years ago this week, the song that still ties it all together cracked the Billboard Top 40 at No. 30, a watershed moment as Bruce’s music reached a national audience for the first time.

Due to delays in production, the release date for “Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition” will be shifted back by one week. The set will now be available in all digital and physical formats on Oct. 24, 2025.

The summer '81 leg of The River tour found Bruce and The E Street Band in a flow state. The setlist for Brendan Byrne on July 6, 1981 weaved tracks from the album and core canon with new additions... 📸: Jim Marchese

Jimmy Kimmel Live! Brooklyn, New York. October 2, 2025. 📸: ABC/Randy Holmes

The Born in the U.S.A. tour ended at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with a grand finale, underscoring the musical and thematic range of Bruce's work in the 1980s...

Bruce's idea was to record demos for the next E Street Band album. But at home in New Jersey, singing into a 4-track cassette machine, he captured something far more complete — stark, vivid songs that didn’t call for anything beyond his voice and instrumentation.

“Land of Hope and Dreams” live at the New York Film Festival. September 28, 2025. 🎥: Rob DeMartin

“What I worked very hard on was not running, but on standing, on making your life choices, and then standing with and for them.” Read Bruce's new TIME cover story now: time.com/7319963/bruc...

"I knew that the way to do it was no audience and no speaking… You just present the record, play it through, then you're done." Just as the "Nebraska" album had been created in isolation, so too would this recording — inside an empty Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Liverpool soundcheck. June 4, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Milan 2025. 📸: Pam Springsteen

Milan 2025. 📸: Pam Springsteen

Milan 2025. 📸: Pam Springsteen

"I’ve written a lot of other narrative records, but there's just something about that batch of songs on 'Nebraska' that holds some sort of magic." –Bruce Springsteen Pre-order "Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition: brucespringsteen.lnk.to/Nebraska82EE

“I’m Goin’ Down” was released as a single on this day in 1985. With a sharp backbeat and bar-band sensibility, it’s one of the most rhythmically playful tunes on "Born in the U.S.A." — with the E Street Band turning heartbreak into something you can move to.

Reflecting on the making of "Born to Run," in 2009, Bruce told James Henke, “The sound I heard in my head was not one that was physically reproducible.” Undeterred, he took six months to record the title track — and guided Clarence Clemons’ iconic solo on “Jungleland,” singing it phrase by phrase.

To commemorate the upcoming 50th anniversary of “Born to Run,” a rare 1975 outtake from the album's legendary sessions is now available in full studio quality as it has never been heard before.

Marseille. May 31, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Marseille soundcheck. May 31, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Just as "Born to Run" defined the E Street Band on record, their five-night residency at The Bottom Line in New York City defined them on stage. 50 years ago, these groundbreaking club performances pushed the band to new limits and, as Bruce wrote, “left a lasting burn in the air.”

Prague. June 15, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Prague soundcheck. June 15, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Berlin. June 11, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Though phone lines crashed when tickets went on sale, Bruce’s show at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. met the demand — beginning the final leg of the Born in the U.S.A. tour on this day in 1985. 📸: Neal Preston

Berlin soundcheck. June 11, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Liverpool. June 7, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Liverpool. June 7, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

East Rutherford, New Jersey. July 20, 2025. 📸: Taylor Hill

Lille. May 27, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Lille backstage. May 27, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Lille. May 24, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Lille soundcheck. May 24, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Inspired by people seeking work in the Texas oil fields, "Seeds" tells a boom-and-bust story. Unrecorded at the time, it joined the Born in the U.S.A. tour setlist as the "new song" — debuting at London’s Wembley Stadium 40 years ago today and seen here at Hyde Park in 2009.