That’s why Bruce Springsteen ruined concerts for everyone

Paul McCartney has joked about Bruce Springsteen in a new podcast episode: The 81-year-old Beatle opened up in a new hour-long episode of ‘Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend’ about the 73-year-old ‘boss’ giving concerts ‘for everyone Ruined” because the fans would now expect three to four hour concerts because of him, and that from all other artists as well. According to McCartney, Springsteen started the trend towards “hour-long mammoth concerts” – in contrast to the Liverpool group’s heyday in the 1960s, when they “with a little luck only played an hour”.

Macca to Boss: “It’s your fault man!”

Macca elaborates: “These days there’s pretty much always a main act and an opening act. At that time [in den 1960er-Jahren] there were a lot of people on the list because no one performed for long, now people perform for three or four hours. I blame Bruce Springsteen – I told him, I said ‘It’s your fault man’.

McCartney humorously: “You can’t just play for an hour anymore. We used to do half an hour. That was the Beatles thing – half an hour and we got paid for that.”

Macca celebrated its 80th birthday last year with a three-hour headline set at Glastonbury. He is currently exhibiting the pictures he took when he was 21 at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The gallery with the exhibition “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm” is open from June 28th to October 1st.

You can listen to the whole episode here:

Bruce Springsteen concerts in Germany

Bruce Springsteen and his The E Street Band are back on tour this year after a six-year European concert break – with some Germany and Austria dates:

• June 21, 2023: Düsseldorf, Merkur Spiel-Arena (read the report and criticism here)
• July 15, 2023: Hamburg, Volkspark Stadium
• July 18, 2023: Vienna, Ernst Happel Stadium*
• July 21, 2023: Hockenheim, Hockenheimring
• July 23, 2023: Munich, Olympic Stadium