Bruce Springsteen to play HALFTIME at the Super Bowl

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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band will headline the halftime show at the Super Bowl on February 1^st, 2009 in Tampa, Florida!

Here's the official announcement from NFL.com

This is the announcement on The Boss' site

Here's a very revealing story about what a great guy Bruce is, and to what length he will go to reach out to his fans.  In 1985, I was working at a radio station in Seattle/Tacoma and Bruce was scheduled to play two nights at the Tacoma Dome*.  As you can imagine, anything regarding Springsteen in 1985 produced hysteria - he was THE music artist of the time having just released "Born In The USA" a year earlier and putting out one of the first-ever boxed sets "Live 1975-1985".

Bruce was ill the first night and was forced to postpone that show.  Around lunchtime on that day, one of our listeners came to the station with a bunch of hand-drawn Get Well cards from the kids at Roy Elementary, the school where she taught.  She asked if we could get them to Bruce.

We delivered the cards to his hotel, and the next morning, one of his representatives brought us a cassette tape from Bruce himself!  On the recording, he and Roy Bittan thank the kids.

Click on the audio tab above and listen to the way he thanked those kids!  I've saved this recording all these years, and hope you enjoy it!

* Trivia:  The Tacoma Dome is one of the largest wood domed structures in the world, and much of the lumber for its roof was harvested from trees blown down by the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State

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