11/05/81 - 11th May 1981 CITY HALL, NEWCASTLE, UK

SETLIST: FOLLOW THAT DREAM / PROVE IT ALL NIGHT / OUT IN THE STREET / 10TH AVENUE FREEZE OUT / DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN / INDEPENDENCE DAY / WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN / TWO HEARTS / THE PROMISED LAND / THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND / THE RIVER / BADLANDS / THUNDER ROAD / CADILLAC RANCH / SHERRY DARLING / HUNGRY HEART / BECAUSE THE NIGHT / YOU CAN LOOK ... / WRECK ON THE HIGHWAY / RACING IN THE STREET / BACKSTREETS / CANDYS ROOM / RAMROD / POINT BLANK / ROSALITA / BORN TO RUN / DETROIT MEDLEY / ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD

First British show since 1975. Bruce also inserts a unique verse of his own into "This Land..." directed towards the British Audience. Show was rescheduled from 31st March.

11.05.81 Newcastle, England, intro to ´Independence Day´

´´I grew up in this little town and we lived on this main street, next door to this gas-station ....and at 6 a.m every morning I used to watch my old man, I´d hear him out back fiddling around under the hood of a car so he could get it started so he could make it to work.... and as I got older, I watched around and I didn´t see how my life was going to be much different than his was because it seemed that if you were born in a certain place that things didn´t change much for you. I looked back at him and he went into the army when he was 19 and he came out and he got married and started to work in a plastics´ factory ....when I got older I never had a picture in my mind of him laughing, all I could remember him doing was sitting at the kitchen table at night with the lights out, smoking a cigarette, waiting....for it all to go away or something....and I tried to think what was the thing that we all had in common, why did it time after time end up that way and it was that we didn´t have enough knowledge about the forces that were controlling our lives. and I started to read this book, it was called History of the United States and it seemed how the way that things were, weren´t the way they were meant to be, like the way my old man was living and his old man and the life that was waiting for me ¬¬¬¬- that wasn´t the original idea. but even if you find those things out, it´s so hard to change things. and it wasn´t until I started listening to the radio and I heard something in the singers´ voices that said there is more to life than what my old man was doing and the life that I was living, and they held out a promise - and it was a promise that every man has a right to live his life with some decency and some dignity. and it´s a promise that gets broken every day, in the most violent way. but it´s a promise that never ever, ever fucking dies and it´s always inside of you. but I watched my old man forget that, don´t let it happen to you.....´´
(taken from the fanzine Point Blank, issue 4, 1981)

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Newcastle City Hall England 11th May 1981.
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Newcastle City Hall England 11th May 1981.
Exclusive photographs by Dirk van der Werff ©

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Newcastle City Hall England 11th May 1981. Exclusive photographs by Dirk van der Werff ©

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