Last night Bruce Springsteen, engaged in the tour that will visit Milan on 1 and 3 June, paid tribute to Shane MacGowan, the singer of the Pogues who passed away in November 2023.
The first song Springsteen played with the E Street Band, even before Lonesome Daywas the cover of A Rainy Night in Soho of the Pogues.
MacGowan, Springsteen wrote after the singer's death, «is one of my favorite songwriters of all time. The passion and intensity of his music and lyrics is unparalleled except among the best.”
In reality Springsteen had already gone on stage a couple of hours before the start of the concert to entertain the audience present at Nowlan Park with an acoustic version of This Hard Land.
The two videos filmed by fans: