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By Meredith Goldberg-Morse

Thousands of babysitters in Helsinki were paid overtime last night as Bruce Springsteen wowed fans with an epic show at Helsinki’s Olympic Stadium. Like a Boss, Bruce played with the E Street Band for an impressive four hours and six minutes, performing 33 different songs—not including the five-song acoustic set he played before the concert to “thank fans for following” him on the tour. Guy’s got serious stamina for a 62-year-old.

For his final show on the European leg of his "Wrecking Ball Tour," Bruce and the E Street Band rolled out five tour premieres, plus another three during the pre-show acoustic set. The Helsinki show is his longest on record, beating the three hour, forty-eight minute show he played in Madrid on June 17.

U.S. fans will have to wait until August 14 to see if The Boss will try to top this record in the States, when he kicks off his return to North America with a show in Boston. The tour concludes on December 6 in Glendale, Arizona.

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by Zachary Swickey

Bruce Springsteen, one of the most revered artists making music, has revealed that he had suicidal thoughts in 1982, the year that his bleak-but-iconic album Nebraska was released, according to a new profile in this month’s New Yorker.

Springsteen suffered bouts of severe depression in the early '80s, according to his friend and biographer Dave Marsh.

"He was feeling suicidal. The depression wasn’t shocking, per se. He was on a rocket ride, from nothing to something, and now you are getting your ass kissed day and night," Marsh writes. "You might start to have some inner conflicts about your real self-worth.”

"My issues weren’t as obvious as drugs," Springsteen told the New Yorker. "Mine were different, they were quieter – just as problematic, but quieter. With all artists, because of the undertow of history and self-loathing, there is a tremendous push toward self-obliteration that occurs onstage."

"It’s both things: there’s a tremendous finding of the self while also an abandonment of the self at the same time. You are free of yourself for those hours; all the voices in your head are gone," he added.

The profile also reveals that The Boss began seeing a psychotherapist in 1982, just as his sixth studio album Nebraska was released.

Springsteen's seventeenth studio album, Wrecking Ball was released in March of this year and took the #1 spot on the Billboard charts.

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By Melanie Wolfson

It's no secret that going to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band is an all-day event. It begins in the parking lot midday with beers, subs, footballs and stereos blasting songs by the Boss. People reminisce about decades of shows past and their expectations for the night ahead — and yesterday's show on the Working on a Dream Tour at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia was yet another astounding performance. After scoring a pair of floor-level tickets back in February, I knew I would be in for an incredible night and, truth be told, I was left nearly speechless afterward and couldn't think of where to begin with summarizing the show. I have narrowed my long list of reasons for why the show rocked down to five highlights, so check them out! Read More...

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