Bruce Springsteen by Peter Cunningham

In the spring of '73 that Columbia sent me down again to Philly to be with the band on the occasion of their first arena show at The Spectrum, Bruce was the...

In the spring of '73 that Columbia sent me down again to Philly to be with the band on the occasion of their first arena show at The Spectrum, Bruce was the opening act for Chicago.  I was welcomed to shoot from the stage so I stood behind Vinnie Lopez the drummer at the time and watched as a good part of the audience booed and called out for Chicago to come on stage: even the King of Rock and Roll can't sail into a hurricane.  Later, when travelling in Jordan on a "listening trip" with Richard Gere and Bernie Glassman, I spied a record shop in Amman whose signage featured a colour painting obviously made from one of the pictures I made that night behind the drummer. <<

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