This time it's the right one!
After several postponements and a last-minute backpedaling last winter, due to a new global wave of Covid-19, Bruce Springsteen finally announced this Tuesday at 6 a.m. the first dates of his new European tour with the E Street Band.
Between two American trips, in February and August 2023, the "boss" and his group will return to Europe at the end of April, and will stop in France on May 13, 2023.
They will play for the first time in the largest European indoor performance hall, Paris La Défense Arena.
Tickets for the show will be on pre-sale on the website of its historical tour operator, Gérard Drouot Productions, on May 31, 2022 at 10 a.m., then on general sale the next day at the usual points of sale.
Let's bet that they will be sold out very quickly… and that the rock star will not be satisfied with just one evening in Paris.
In 2016, he blew up Bercy's lead
This tour with the E Street Band was planned for 2020, following the reunion album, the excellent "Letter to you", released in October 2019. But the pandemic closed everything and postponed it.
Springsteen and the musicians have performed together publicly only once, on one of America's most popular cultural shows, Saturday Night Live, in December 2020. Introduced by actor Timothée Chalamet, who is to play the young Bob Dylan in a biopic whose filming was postponed by the health crisis, they played two songs from this album, "Ghost" and "I'll See You In My Dreams".
The stainless 72-year-old rocker has not remained inactive, however.
In particular, he wrote a book with President Barack Obama on their vision of America, "Renegades: Born In The USA", and resumed his solo show "Springsteen on Broadway", to contribute to the reopening last summer of New York theaters.
He also sang on John Mellencamp's latest album, with the Killers and Bleachers, the group of Jack Antonoff, brilliant producer and collaborator of Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey.
Finally, he has his back covered by giving up, like many stars of his generation, his musical catalog.
He sold his rights to his historic record label Sony for 500 million dollars (about 470 million euros).
The return of the "boss" is highly anticipated.
The last time we vibrated with him on stage was in July 2016 at Bercy during two epic four-hour evenings.
Everyone remembers the first, on July 11, when the other Mr. 100,000 volts blew the fuses out of his favorite room.
This time, he is attacking Paris La Défense Arena and its 40,000 seats.
In twelve months, expect him to play new songs, as an unreleased studio album with the E Street Band is due this year.
