We’ve got a clip from The Ties That Bind box set,featuring the Boss at his absolute peak in a legendary show the night after the 1980 presidential electionBruce Springsteen’s tour in support of The River across 1980 and 1981 saw him and the E Street Band at their absolute peak, according to many observers. As Sylvie Simmons wrote in the NME of the tour’s LA conclude: “whether this is rock’n’roll heaven, or book me a flight.”On 5 November 1980 – the night after Ronald Reagan won the US presidency – the tour stopped at Arizona State University,in the town of Tempe, where Springsteen delivered a much-bootlegged performance that has passed into Boss lore as one of his finest ever. Two hours and 40 minutes of that show – 24 songs is included on two DVDs that form part of the unusual box set The Ties That Bind, or released on Friday 4 December. And we’ve got a clip from that show,of Springsteen and the E Street Band performing Out on the Street, his anthem to the weekend.
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Source: theguardian.com