99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2007!
That year PLR welcomed Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band to Hartford’s XL Center. Springsteen kicked off his “Magic Tour” in Hartford, which was his first tour with the E Street Band since 2004. It was one of the biggest tours of the year and it grossed more than $200 million, ranking it second only to Bon Jovi’s Lost Highway Tour.
Bruce was supporting his fifteenth studio album, “Magic,” which was released the week before tour opener in Hartford. The album featured singles Radio Nowhere and Girls in Their Summer Clothes.
Today we look back at Springsteen’s sold out performance in Hartford…
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band
Tour: Magic
Tuesday October 2, 2007 (tour opener)
The XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
Ticket Price: $67.25 and $97.25
Band Lineup: Bruce Springsteen, Roy Bittan, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa, Gary Tallent, Steven Van Zandt, Max Weinberg. Also featuring Charles Giordano and Soozzie Tyrell.
Setlist*
- Radio Nowhere
- The Ties That Bind
- Lonesome Day
- Gypsy Biker
- Magic
- Reason to Belive
- Night
- She’s The One
- Livin’ in the Future
- The Promised Land
- Town Called Heartbreak (Patti Scialfa cover)
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Darlington County
- Devil’s Arcade
- The Rising
- Last to Die
- Long Walk Home
- Badlands
- Girls in Their Summer Clothes (encore)
- Thundercrack (encore)
- Born to Run (encore)
- Waitin’ on a Sunny Day (encore)
- American Land (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Check out these clips of Bruce Springsteen in Hartford