Bruce Springsteen gives surprise Born to Run performance
Bruce Springsteen surprised an audience at Monmouth University when he teamed up with E Street Band members both past and present for a rendition of the album Born to Run.
Bruce Springsteen performed a surprise rendition of Born to Run in honour of the album's 50th anniversary.
The Boss marked half a century of the record at Monmouth University in New Jersey over the weekend at an event sponsored by the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music.
It brought together Springsteen's current and former bandmates, as well as roadies, photographers and Columbia Records personnel who worked with the Born in the USA rocker during the making of the 1975 album.
Springsteen was present for both on-stage panels and interviews and there was a mystery slot left in the schedule for a live performance - with those in attendance informed that they needed to be back at the university's Pollack Theatre on time to lock up their phones in Yondr pouches prior to the afternoon.
The event then drew to a close with performances of both Thunder Road and the album's title track with members of his E Street Band from both past and present.
The Boss was joined on stage by Steven Van Zandt, Roy Bittan, Garry Tallent and Max Weinberg, with former keyboardist David Sancious later joining in with Ernest 'Boom' Carte, the drummer on the Born to Run single for the big finale.
Meanwhile, Springsteen is set to be the subject of the biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere - in which he will be played by Jeremy Allen White - and revealed that he agreed to the movie from director Scott Cooper because he is "old".
Speaking at the Telluride Film Festival last month, the 75-year-old star said: "What brought this one along was that I think we had a very specific idea — Scott had a very specific idea, particularly, of what we were gonna attempt to do.
"And, for lack of a better word, it was an anti-biopic. You know, it’s really not a biopic — it just takes a couple years out of my life when I was 31 and 32 and looks at them really at a time when I made this particular record, and when I went through some just difficult places in my life, you know.
"And, I’m old and I don’t give a f*** what I do now.”
