On this special day, we honor Ray and Walter Cichon as well as Bart Haynes, drummer of the Castiles, to whom "The Wall" is dedicated.

Liverpool. June 4, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Liverpool. June 4, 2025. 📸: Rob DeMartin

Bruce played his first show overseas on this day 50 years ago, in London. The music he and the E Street Band performed — later released as "Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75" — struck different notes: bold, confident and unmistakably ready for the world, prepared by years of rough gigs.

Its topical songs, largely set in the American West, still speak in quiet volumes for anyone searching for purpose, mercy or a little grace in the dark.

📸: Neal Preston

Recorded by candlelight, it was the record Bruce made to find his way back to the heart of his writing.

📸: Neal Preston

Released on this day in 1995, "The Ghost of Tom Joad" remains an album of steady voices, giving shape to the characters whose stories are often overlooked.

📸: Neal Preston

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.