Bruce Springsteen Tickets and Tour Dates

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band fall tour itinerary
Oct 2 - Hartford, CT - Hartford Civic Center 
Oct 5 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center
Oct 9-10 - E Rutherford, Continental Airlines Arena
Oct 14 - Ottawa, ONT - Civic Centre
Oct 15 - Toronto, ONT - Air Canada Centre
Oct 17-18 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
Oct 21 - Chicago, IL - United Center
Oct 26 - Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena
Oct 28 - Los Angeles, CA - Venue TBA
Nov 2 - St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
Nov 4 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
Nov 5 - Auburn Hills, MI - Palace Of Auburn Hills
Nov 11 - Washington, D.C. - Verizon Arena
Nov 14 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mellon Arena
Nov 15 - Albany, NY - Times Union Center
Nov 18 - Boston, MA TD - Banknorth Garden
Nov 25 - Madrid, SPAIN - Palacio De Deportes
Nov 26 - Bilbao, SPAIN - Bilbao Exhibition Centre
Nov 28 - Milan, ITALY - Datchforum
Nov 30 - Arnhem, NETHERLANDS - Geldredome
Dec 2 - Mannheim, GERMANY - Sap Arena
Dec 4 - Oslo, NORWAY - Oslo Spektrum
Dec 8 - Copenhagen, DENMARK - Forum
Dec 10 - Stockholm, SWEDEN - Globe Arena
Dec 12 - Antwerp, BELGIUM - Sports Paleis
Dec 13 - Cologne, GERMANY - Koln Arena
Dec 15 - Belfast, IRELAND - Odyssey Arena
Dec 17 - Paris, FRANCE - Palais Omnisports De Bercy
Dec 19 - London, UK - O2 Arena

When Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 after a decade of trying, critics hailed him as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of '50s rock and the thoughtfulness of '60s rock, molded into a '70s style. He rocked as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis, his lyrics were as complicated as Bob Dylan's, and his concerts were near-religious celebrations of all that was best in music. One critic became so enamored that he quit reviewing to become Springsteen's manager. But the hosannas, when piped through the publicity machine of a major record company, were perceived as hype by a significant part of the public as well as the mainstream media -- Springsteen landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek, but both magazines were covering the phenomenon, not the music.

Springsteen's album, Born to Run, became a hit, and he jumped to arena status as a live act, but as many people were turned off by the press campaign as turned on by the records and shows. Two decades later, however, Springsteen remained an established star who could look back on a career that had produced one of the best-selling albums of all time, sold-out stadium shows, Grammy Awards and an Oscar, and a group of imitators who constituted their own subgenre of popular music. If he no longer seemed divine, he remained popular enough for his Greatest Hits album to enter the charts at number one, and he had won over many of those skeptics from 1975.

Growing up in southern New Jersey, Springsteen turned to rock & roll as a teenager and played in a series of bands from the mid-'60s on, varying in style from garage rock to power trio blues-rock. By the early '70s, he was trying his hand at being a folky singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village. But when he was signed to Columbia Records in 1972, he brought into the studio many of the New Jersey-based musicians with whom he'd played over the years. The result was Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ (January 1973), which went unnoticed upon initial release, though Manfred Mann's Earth Band would turn its leadoff track, "Blinded by the Light," into a number one hit four years later.