New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Columbia Records) -
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band tonight will launch their 2008 tour in Hartford, CT at the HCC Arena, kicking off 55 tour dates that will span North
America and Europe. Tour video highlights will be posted on brucespringsteen.net.
Their 2007 tour was met with rapturous critical response and rapid sell-outs. The Washington Post proclaimed, "Springsteen and his longtime band were simply great, performing a well-considered set with heightened intensity and a very clear sense of purpose... Springsteen remains one of the most potent live performers in popular music - largely because he's among the most committed practitioners of the form, draining all of his creative energy every time he's onstage."
Bruce Springsteen's twenty-third album 'Magic' was released October 2 on Columbia Records and debuted at number one on Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart. Rolling Stone awarded the album five stars, saying, "A firm beat, some Telecaster sting and the robust peal of Clarence Clemons' saxophone can still tell you more about the human condition than a thousand op-ed words."
'Magic' has been certified triple Platinum in Norway; double Platinum in Ireland and Sweden; Platinum in the United States, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Spain, and Canada; and Gold in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. On February 10, Springsteen won GRAMMY Awards for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and for Best Rock Song for "Radio Nowhere."
Columbia Records recently released a digital bundle of the "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" single, including the "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" video directed by Mark Pellington ("Lonesome Day," Pearl Jam's "Jeremy").
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND 2008 TOUR DATES
March 2 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
March 3 Hamilton, ONT Copps Coliseum
March 6 Rochester, NY Blue Cross Arena
March 7 Buffalo, NY HSBC Arena
March 10 Nassau, NY Nassau Coliseum
March 14 Omaha, NE Qwest Center
March 16 St. Paul, MN Xcel Center
March 17 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center
March 20 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
March 22 Cincinnati, OH U.S. Bank Arena
March 24 Columbus, OH Schottenstein Center
March 28 Portland, OR The Rose Garden
March 29 Seattle, WA Key Arena
March 31 Vancouver, BC GM Place
April 4 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena
April 5 San Jose, CA HPPavilion at San Jose
April 7 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
April 8 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
April 13 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
April 14 Houston, TX Toyota Center
April 18 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Bank Atlantic Center
April 19 Orlando, FL Amway Arena
April 21 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum
April 25 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
April 27 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Bobcat Arena
April 28 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
April 30 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena
May 22 Dublin, IRE RDS Arena
May 23 Dublin, IRE RDS Arena
May 25 Dublin, IRE RDS Arena
May 28 Manchester, UK Old Trafford Stadium
May 30 London, UK Emirates Stadium
May 31 London, UK Emirates Stadium
June 14 Cardiff, UK Millenium Stadium
June 16 Dusseldorf, GE LTU Arena
June 18 Amsterdam, Netherlands Amsterdam Arena
June 21 Hamburg, GE HSH Nordbank Arena
June 23 Brussels, BE Koning Boudewijnstadion
June 25 Milan, IT Stadio San Siro
June 27 Paris, FR Parc Des Princes
June 29 Copenhagen, DE Parken
July 4 Gothenburg, SW Ullevi
July 5 Gothenburg, SW Ullevi
July 7 Oslo, Norway Valle Hoven
July 8 Oslo, Norway Valle Hoven
July 11 Helsinki, Finland Olympia Stadium
July 15 San Sebastian, Spain Estadio De Anoeta
July 17 Madrid, Spain Santiago Bernabeu
July 19 Barcelona, Spain Camp Nou
July 20 Barcelona, Spain Camp Nou
July 27 E. Rutherford, NJ Giants Stadium
July 28 E. Rutherford, NJ Giants Stadium
July 31 E. Rutherford, NJ Giants Stadium
August 30 Milwaukee, WI Veterans Park
