Only a few hours to go until the second Italian date of WORKING ON A DREAM TOUR, which will be staged at 20:30 at the Stadio Olimpico in Turin. The second comes after a debut with a bang, defined by many as the Boss's best concert in Italy ever: at Rome in fact we witnessed three hours of E-Street Band in top form.
Eighty-something mother Adele Zirilli watches from the sidelines the exploits of her almost sixty-year-old boy; a couple of children come up to sing, off-key and tender; Max Weinberg hasn't let go of his drummer son's stool; and Bruce devotes much of the intro to "Raise your hand collecting signs with song requests, a couple of which he will perform.
With 'Born to Run' closing the set, we head towards the end. It takes almost another hour for it to really materialise, though. A song rises for Abruzzo ('My city of ruins'), a hymn for bystanders ('Thunder road'), and a new crescendo is being prepared: "You Can't Sit Down" and "American Land". are intense and powerful, and it is only right that they come to this point. But the Boss's ritual is to leave with a smile, and only and only when you have truly made that hour; not with 'Bobby Jean'which outside Italy often closes the show, not with 'Dancing in the dark'which would already be the second extra track, but with the well-rehearsed medley 'Twist and shout / La Bamba'in which the boss gives full rein to his stage and comedy repertoire, exhausts his fans for good and bids them farewell with the impression that he still has some left.
The line-up in Rome:
Badlands
Out in the street
Outlaw Pete
No surrender
She's the one
Working on a dream
Seeds
Johnny 99
Atlantic City
Raise your hand
Hungry heart
Pink Cadillac
I'm on fire
Surprise surprise
Try it all night
Waitin' on a sunny day
The promised land
American skin (41 Shots)
Lonesome day
The rising
Born to run
My city of ruins
Thunder Road
You can't sit down
American land
Bobby Jean
Dancing in the dark
Twist and shout / La Bamba
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