Bruce will bury us all

"This guy will bury us all."

It was the first thing a friend wrote to me after listening to him a month ago at Madison Square Garden.

She was right.

Damn if she had it.

73 years and so much life on her guitar.

At the end of the concert, the messages on the phone of that other family so dear to us begin to accumulate, the one of whom we feel that Bruce Springsteen is part of our lives.

Another message from Maria, the girl who spent months doubting whether or not it made sense to spend her money to go to seven concerts on this tour.

"Fucking concert.

It was looser than in Madison ”.

She now she would follow him and her through Rome, then through Gothenburg and wherever she sang so she wouldn't have to see him only in dreams.

I read more messages while people hug each other after the end of the party.

Anna, a mother from my children's school who has come with her own, also writes immediately.

"Brutal".

Jaume, who sent me photos at seven in the evening, exults.

And I will not forget the moment when Laura,

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Bruce Springsteen in Barcelona: to resist is to win

Nothing can with Bruce.

Because the president was there, but he is the boss.

From the moment that Rebeca Carranco reported exclusively for EL PAÍS that Barack Obama would be at the concert, part of her attention seemed to be won by the former president of the United States, who recorded a

with the singer

During the last twenty-four hours we have seen him photographed with Springsteen in a restaurant (they say that the bill was paid by José Andrés) or with Steven Spielberg walking through the city, entering museums for tourists or paying attention in the Sagrada Família.

But Obama is not in the box, the Government of the Generalitat has taken off the hook because there will be no photography and the candidates for the mayoral elections more or less endure.

The one from PSC Jaume Collboni leaves in the middle of a concert, Ernest Maragall, from ERC, is fascinated by the show;

Xavier Trias (Junts) complies and, in the end, Ada Colau, the mayoress, dances happily as if the

they were forever

The stars were in a tent on the stage, Rebeca writes to me so that I don't screw up this chronicle that I write urgently, but that was the least of it.

Public of the Bruce Springsteen concert in Barcelona.

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I see Loquillo with Sabino Méndez and the

composer approaches me with his cell phone to show me a photograph.

His entry from the 1981 concert at the Palau dels Esports.

starts playing ,

gets up because even he owes respect to the Boss.

That respect is the gratitude for so much authenticity.

Nostalgia?

Yes, but not alone.

Not much less.

Bruce Springsteen has not failed in his first concert of the European tour.

Maria is right.

This guy will bury us all.

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