Live in Barcelona (Bruce Springsteen DVD)

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Live in Barcelona
Directed byChris Hilson
Produced by Jon Landau
Barbara Carr
George Travis
Starring Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Music by Bruce Springsteen
recorded and mixed by Brendan O'Brien
Edited byThom Zimny
Distributed by Columbia Music Video
Release date
  • November 18, 2003 (2003-11-18)
Running time
180 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageEnglish

Live In Barcelona is a full concert video DVD of a performance by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band of their Rising Tour performance of October 16, 2002 at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Bruce Springsteen American singer and songwriter

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer-songwriter and leader of the E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss," he is recognized for his poetic lyrics, his Jersey Shore roots, his distinctive voice, and lengthy, energetic stage performances.

E Street Band Bruce Springsteens backing band

The E Street Band is an American rock band, and has been musician Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band since 1972. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

Contents

The first half of the show was broadcast live at the time across Europe on MTV Europe and VH1 UK; the broadcast concluded with Springsteen's biggest hit, "Dancing in the Dark", unusually placed in the middle of the regular set for that reason. A tape of the broadcast was later aired by CBS in the United States on February 28, 2003 as well. The performance of "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" was released as a music video to promote the single.

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Dancing in the Dark (Bruce Springsteen song) 1984 Bruce Springsteen song

"Dancing in the Dark" is a song written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. Adding uptempo synthesizer riffs to his sound for the first time, the song spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over one million singles in the U.S. It was the first single released from his 1984 album Born in the U.S.A.; it became his biggest hit and helped to propel the album to become the best-selling album of his career.

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Released on November 18, 2003 after the tour's conclusion and now incorporating the complete Barcelona performance, this DVD was the first time that an entire Springsteen concert was documented with an official release in either audio or video. Unlike the prior tour's concert video Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Live in New York City , no equivalent audio-only album release was made.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live In New York City is the name of a concert film done by HBO, featuring the first ever major televised Bruce Springsteen concert. It was later released on DVD with eleven extra songs not televised, and as a CD of the same name.

Contents

Disc one

  1. "The Rising"
  2. "Lonesome Day"
  3. "Prove It All Night"
  4. "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
  5. "Empty Sky"
  6. "You're Missing"
  7. "Waitin' on a Sunny Day"
  8. "The Promised Land"
  9. "Worlds Apart"
  10. "Badlands"
  11. "She's the One"
  12. "Mary's Place"
  13. "Dancing in the Dark"
  14. "Countin' on a Miracle"
  15. "Spirit in the Night"
  16. "Incident on 57th Street"
  17. "Into the Fire"

Disc two

  1. "Night"
  2. "Ramrod"
  3. "Born to Run"
  4. "My City of Ruins"
  5. "Born in the U.S.A."
  6. "Land of Hope and Dreams"
  7. "Thunder Road"
  8. Drop the Needle and Pray: The Rising on Tour, a documentary featuring footage from shows on the Summer 2003 leg of the tour at Fenway Park and Giants Stadium, interviews with Springsteen and band members, and unpublished photographs.

Personnel

As listed on the DVD cover:

The E Street Band
Roy Bittan US-American keyboardist

Roy J. Bittan, born in Rockaway Beach, New York, is an American keyboardist and pianist, best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, which he joined on August 23, 1974. Bittan, nicknamed The Professor, plays the piano, organ, accordion and synthesizers. Bittan was inducted as a member of the E Street Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014.

Keyboard instrument class of musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings.

Clarence Clemons American musician and actor

Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr., also known as The Big Man, was an American saxophonist, musician and actor. From 1972 until his death, he was a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone.

Charts

Chart (2003)Peak
position
Australian DVDs Chart [1] 14
Austrian Music DVDs Chart [2] 4
German Albums Chart [3] 38
US Music Videos Chart [4] 5
Chart (2004)Peak
position
Belgian (Flanders) Music DVDs Chart [5] 10

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/Sales
Australia (ARIA) [6] 3× Platinum45,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria) [7] Gold5,000*
France (SNEP) [8] Gold10,000*
Germany (BVMI) [9] Platinum50,000^
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [10] 2× Platinum50,000^
United States (RIAA) [11] 4× Platinum200,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

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