{"id":29580,"date":"2024-05-23T15:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-23-1978-bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-kick-off-their-darkness-tour\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T15:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:05:59","slug":"on-this-day-may-23-1978-bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-kick-off-their-darkness-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-23-1978-bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-kick-off-their-darkness-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, May 23, 1978: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band kick off their Darkness Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-23\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, May 23, 1978 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band\u00a0<\/strong>kicked off their Darkness tour at Shea\u2019s in Buffalo, New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tour, in support of Springsteen\u2019s fourth studio album,\u00a0<em>Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em>, included a three-night stand at the Palladium in New York City. It wrapped on New Year\u2019s Day 1979 in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>The opening night set list included the live debuts of future Springsteen classics like \u201cBadlands,\u201d \u201cProve It All Night,\u201d \u201cRacing in the Street,\u201d \u201cThe Promised Land,\u201d \u201cCandy\u2019s Room\u201d and \u201cDarkness on the Edge of Town.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The set also included favorites like \u201cThunder Road,\u201d \u201cRosalita,\u201d \u201cBorn to Run\u201d and \u201cTenth Avenue Freeze Out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Springsteen and The E Street Band are currently on tour in Europe, and will play Marseille, France on May 25. A complete list of dates can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/brucespringsteen.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>brucespringsteen.net<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, May 23, 1978 &#8230; Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band\u00a0kicked off their Darkness tour at Shea\u2019s in Buffalo, New York.\u00a0 The tour, in support of Springsteen\u2019s fourth studio album,\u00a0Darkness on the Edge of Town, included a three-night stand at the Palladium in New York City. It<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-may-23-1978-bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-kick-off-their-darkness-tour\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}