1987-12-13 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY

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All Star Benefit for the Homeless Children. Bruce backs Dion on "A Teenager In Love", along with Paul Simon, Rubén Blades, Lou Reed, James Taylor, and Billy Joel. "Born To Run" is the solo acoustic version. "Glory Days" is with Paul Simon and Billy Joel, backed by David Letterman's house band, The World's Most Dangerous Band. The Chuck Berry classic "Rock And Roll Music", which features all of the evening's performers, with Bruce, Billy Joel, James Taylor, and Paul Simon taking verses. The lineup for the night was Paul Simon, Paul Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band, Lou Reed, Dion, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Laurie Anderson, Rubén Blades, James Taylor, Nile Rodgers with Chaka Khan, and Billy Joel; also joining in were Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Debbie Harry, Grace Jones, Chevy Chase, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Cosby, Kevin Nealon, Lorne Michaels, and the baseball stars Don Mattingly and Ron Darling, who introduced Bruce.

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On Stage

All Star Benefit for the Homeless Children

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• Bruce Springsteen
• The World's Most Dangerous Band
  • Anton Fig
  • Will Lee
  • Sid McGinnis
  • David Sanborn
  • Paul Shaffer
• Laurie Anderson
• Rubén Blades
  • Tito Allen
  • Robby Ameen
  • Sammy Figueroa
  • Oscar Hernández
  • Ralph Irizarry
  • Arturo Ortiz
  • Mike Viñas
• Chevy Chase
• Bill Cosby
• Ron Darling
• Dion DiMucci
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
  • Grandmaster Flash
  • Keef Cowboy
  • Melle Mel
  • Rahiem
  • Scorpio
  • The Kidd Creole
• Debbie Harry
• Billy Joel
• Grace Jones
• Chaka Khan
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  • Jabulani Dubazana
  • Abednego Mazibuko
  • Albert Mazibuko
  • Geoffrey Mdletshe
  • Russel Mthembu
  • Inos Phungula
  • Ben Shabalala
  • Headman Shabalala
  • Jockey Shabalala
  • Joseph Shabalala
• Don Mattingly
• Lorne Michaels
• Kevin Nealon
• Lou Reed
• Nile Rodgers
• Paul Simon
  • Michael Brecker
  • Randy Brecker
  • Tony Cedras
  • Bakithi Kumalo
  • Isaac Mtshali
  • Ray Phiri
  • Barney Rachabane
  • Mike Rose
  • John Selolwane
• James Taylor

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^{Complete lineup of performers is not known. If you have any information or further details regarding the musicians onstage for this date please get in touch.}

Setlist

With Dion A TEENAGER IN LOVE Solo Acoustic BORN TO RUN With The World's Most Dangerous Band GLORY DAYS All-Star Finale ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC

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Performances

^{incl. Rehearsals.}

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• 2023-04-01 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2022-10-01 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2019-11-04 Hulu Theater At Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2018-11-05 Hulu Theater At Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2018-07-18 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2017-09-15 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2016-11-01 Theater At Madison Square Garden (The), New York City, NY
• 2016-03-28 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2016-01-27 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2015-11-10 Theater At Madison Square Garden (The), New York City, NY
• 2015-07-31 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2014-11-05 Theater At Madison Square Garden (The), New York City, NY
• 2013-11-06 Theater At Madison Square Garden (The), New York City, NY
• 2012-12-12 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2012-04-09 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2012-04-06 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2011-12-01 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2009-11-08 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2009-11-07 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2009-10-30 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2009-10-29 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2009-05-03 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2007-10-18 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2007-10-17 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2006-06-22 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2003-02-23 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2002-08-12 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-07-01 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-06-29 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-06-27 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-06-26 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-06-23 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-06-22 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-06-20 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-06-17 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-06-15 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2000-06-12 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1997-02-26 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1993-06-26 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1988-08-24 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1988-05-23 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1988-05-22 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1988-05-19 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1988-05-18 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1988-05-16 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1987-12-13 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1983-08-02 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1980-12-19 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1980-12-18 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1980-11-28 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1980-11-27 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1979-09-22 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1979-09-21 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1978-08-23 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1978-08-22 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1978-08-21 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1973-06-15 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1973-06-14 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY

Appearances

^{incl. Interviews and Recording-sessions.}

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• 2024-10-04 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2018-07-01 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 2008-12-12 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY

Cancelled

• 2016-01-24 Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
• 1975-05-09 Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY

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Media

Recording

Audience tape, soundboard and video footage.

Storyteller

Intro to "Born to Run"
´´I think everybody´s, uh….everybody´s earliest memories….go back to their homes and uh….I remember when I was…when I was a kid….the first thing I remember is the livingroom in my grandparents´house where we lived….my grandfather had this big stuffed chair, he used to sit next to a gerosine stove….and I´d come running home from school….you know, I´d get in the house and I´d smell that livingroom, I remember how safe I felt….then I remember when I was out on….when me and my band first went on the road, we…we were out in the middle of the country somewhere and we were broke and didn´t have much money to get back….I remember calling my mom….and she said, uh, she said those magic words ´You can always come home´, you know….I didn´t wanna go but it was nice to know I could….so it´s, uh, it´s sad to think that there´s a generation of children out there whose memories….of their home…..is gonna be a welfare hotel or a shelter….and uh….nobody who´s gonna provide real badly needed medical aid and some comfort…..but these kids are gonna end up….living their….living out their childhood in what amounts to being refugees in their own land….and in the end whether you´re, uh….I guess rich or you´re poor, you spend so much of your life trying to get home and I wrote this song about 15 years ago, it was about a guy and a girl….that I thought….that wanted to run and keep on running and never stop….and I guess, at the time I thought ….I thought that was me….and maybe it was but….I woke up one morning and realised that, that I wanted to have a home and that nobody wants….or deserves to be homeless ….”

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