“Backstreets” fanzine is shut down after 43 years in protest against ticket prices

The Bruce Springsteen fanzine Backstreets is ceasing publication to protest Bruce Springsteen’s ticket prices. That gave publisher and editor-in-chief Christopher Phillips in an article on the Backstreets.com website: “After 43 years of publishing the magazine in one form or another, by fans for Bruce Springsteen fans, it is with mixed feelings that we announce that Backstreets has reached the end of the road.”

Bruce Springsteen: Up to $5,000 for a ticket on Ticketmaster

Bruce Springsteen is touring Europe with The E Street Band in 2023. He gives three concerts in Germany and one in Austria. The prices vary between 75.05 euros and 509 euros. Some cards were reportedly costing $5,000 apiece in the US thanks to Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing model.” – making them unaffordable for many fans.

Editor-in-Chief Phillips: “Dejected, Disillusioned”

Editor-in-Chief Phillips writes: “If you read the editorial Backstreets published last summer following the US ticket sales, you can get an idea of ​​where we were in our minds and hearts: discouraged, dejected and, yes, disillusioned . It’s not a feeling we’re used to in anticipation of a new Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band tour.”

Springsteen manager Jon Landau defends the pricing, Deadline reports, saying, “Our actual average price for tickets is in the mid-$200 range. I believe in today’s environment that’s a fair price to pay to see someone who is widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of his generation.”

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