Racing In The Street - Philadelphia (Best Version) - 9/9/16

[@ajgemperline9207]

I have seen him do this live twice. It sends chills through my body. It’s his best song ever

[@musicfan1485]

I have never been so fortunate, though I prayed before every concert I assisted. Wie uld have cried like a Baby, if He would have played it. It is unique

[@timzaro2171]

I was there. Pure magic. Never forget it all my life.

[@johnmucci6567]

The last 5 minutes of this takes me to a place I don't care if I ever come back from.

[@brianwade879]

Yes. I'd agree 👍 💯

[@janflewelling6277]

Amen. It raises something secret and sacred in your soul. I'm breathless.

[@brokenspell4851]

Hot, humid summer night back in the mid seventies before innocence was lost.

[@robgoite]

i really liked that John...

[@toddc.5464]

The Piano is hypnotic...beautiful Mr. Roy Bittan

[@lizhahn9474]

Todd C. The professor at his best

[@brianwade879]

I'm sitting here, a year after your comment, in front of my fullsize lll Williams, Legato, trying play note 🎵 for note for note, 🎶 and failing ! But the fun is, listening, remembering, and trying. Man, I love it ! 💙✊🤟

[@joeygann381]

Roy bittan is god

[@leafrelief1]

I saw Springsteen last night in DC. The Professor moved me to tears. Moving and very powerful!

[@88Musk]

Dan's organ line makes it even better.

[@JaceJordan-fe1sy]

summer of 78 just out of school, 1967 mustang fastback rolling out on a saturday night, this song cranked up over on over on my 8 track as we were crusin up and down the avenue windows down hair blowing racing red light to red light it just couldnt get any better, i miss those days.

[@bcal4877]

This. Just this, you nailed it. Life didn’t get any better than Bruce on 8 track in 1978…..I remember recording Passaic on 8 track , my life has been better for it. Literally the soundtrack of my life for 46 years (so far) including the Broadway show

[@brokenspell4851]

@@bcal4877I was 14 and my big brother said you should buy this Springsteen guys album, born to run…listened, it was something magical that still brings tears to my eyes. Then darkness, then wild and innocent, then asbury park…I couldn’t get enough.

[@rodpitcock6730]

This will always be my favorite Bruce Springsteen song. I have seen them in concert 22 times and treasure each time that he plays “Racing in the Street”. My favorite was during born bio in USA tour that was on his live 1975-1985 albums. That album also has the very best version of Thunder Road if you have not heard it.

[@marktaronji4694]

That outro could go on forever and I would never get sick of it.

[@doughayes2594]

Best outro ever and in a lifetime of best ever songs, this is my favorite- and then the man does Western Stars at 69 years old - GOAT

[@mikelamont6696]

Right. Last 5 minutes of the song...incredible!

[@dannycollier5507]

I came here to listen to the outro.

[@88Musk]

I used to fall asleep to it in the 80s

[@ralfsturm9613]

@@dannycollier5507 Same here! And it seems to be one of the best.

[@dylanmyers3082]

Apart from dylan this man is the greatest artist to ever walk on this earth both been my idols for 50 years

[@garydoyle9068]

He's stayed good live, Dylan's been terrible for years

[@dylanmyers3082]

Your a complete fuckin idiot you obviously dont know how good bob is how dare you insult the god of bob You make me sick you clown​@@garydoyle9068

[@jaclynjohnston]

I cry like a baby every time I hear this in concert. 😄😳😭😭🛞🎸🖤

[@jerryhanley4279]

respect...only words here...we are going racing in the street.........and im 60 ish........what a man what music....and they say we are too old etc....

[@steveohmygoodness7]

I speak of this song in the same reverence that other people do about Mozart and Beethoven, and I make no apologies for it.

[@dacethejackofhearts7209]

It’s true ! when the band comes in , it’s Phil Spector, The Beach Boys , Ennio Morricone , and some Jersey Grease on top all at once , it’s as good as anything ever recorded

[@bcal4877]

When Mozart or Beethoven write something this good, then you can apologize for it. Until then, I’m on your side

[@colinegan5501]

A wise man once said we'd never see the like of Mozart in a hundred years, and a second said "you may as well have said a thousand". As far as songwriters go, I've yet to hear a good reason Bruce isn't in there too.

[@johnnyraiderallison851]

NONE NEEDED STEVIE !!!!!!! THIS AND BORN TO RUN AND ROZALITA R MY FAVE, SINCE I BECAME A BOSSMAN FAN IN '75. GO OAKLAND/LAS VEGAS RRRAIDERS 21 AND CHUCKIE !!!!!!!

[@jimwelsh997]

No apologies needed this is a beautiful story and the music is also so damn beautiful. I could die listening to this as I go with a smile.

[@JFK-1984]

27 of may 2023 in Amsterdam. I go with my father i bought tickets for his 65th birthday. I hope Bruce will play this epic song. Thanks for this.

[@JamesBurnett1985]

I’ll be seeing you there!😃

[@arendwolven6588]

Let the rolex home... and share the moment with yr father.... there is only one...🌻

[@JFK-1984]

@@arendwolven6588 the Omega Speedmaster will join the concert 😂 and we all will enjoy

[@arundhawan8574]

I loved the Hyde Park version and the Paramount Theatre version of this gem, but this version is just at a different level. Very intimate! The Boss's vocals and Roy Bittan's piano, pure love! Drives a 58-year-old to tears.

[@kennethshort2016]

Yes. But I really do like the Hyde Park performance. I like how he sped up the tempo a bit. But what really gets me is how his voice cracks and breaks a bit. Just perfect for the song.

[@halharrison6595]

Amen.

[@joestrong2744]

Hear more of Roy on Bowie's Station to Station.

[@andrewhalket4129]

@@joestrong2744 And on some Bob Seger. And on Bat out of Hell...

[@luvsilly60]

Thank you I will check it out

[@jetstar1011]

man, that outro can go on for the next 3000 years and i wouldn't even tire of it.

[@stichyface]

I feel the same way.

[@jetstar1011]

@@stichyface maybe it's the musician in me, but if you add the horns section and part of the string section of a mariachi band to it, that would be a plus.

[@stichyface]

@@jetstar1011 I would love to hear that!

[@jetstar1011]

@@stichyface oh trust me, I can just picture it in my mind. It would be such a beauty.

[@rikbakker608]

Isn’t there anyone out there who has the skills, the tools and the inspiration to put like ten or twenty outtakes of the part between 5:39 and 9:49 behind each other? That would create an hour of music that in my idea would never bore. Finish it with part of the song from 9:50 to the end and it’s complete. I think I am not the only one who would never be bored by listening to such a compilation.

[@brunotatalia3664]

I absolutely love this joint. I grew up in Jersey. My big brother Frankie built a trick 68 Camero. I always wanted to go with him on the weekends to race. Finally at 16 Franki took me from our house in River Edge to Stag Hill Rd to race. I loved it so much and will never forget all the characters too. Jersey...One Love.

[@simonaleone8139]

Sure... This Song Is the best music componiment in the world fill of sweet pure emotional mood

[@davebeck7259]

Every time that I hear those 12 magical seconds that start at 7:00, I close my eyes and focus on the piano (hardcore) - I get teary eyed every damn time. Hearing this song live is on my Bucket list.

[@jaclynjohnston]

I cry every time I hear this song live. 😄😭

[@wedge5896]

Going to watch him may 2024 Cardiff, can't wait to hear this live

[@ottoborger2153]

Epic Masterpiece. I wish he would play this on the 2023 tour in Germany. I love the early songs more than the newer ones.

[@adamgorsky8422]

I cry every time, EVERY time, thanks Boss

[@johnnyraiderallison851]

ADAM, DID U HAVE A 69 CHEVY WITH A 396? FUELLY HEADS AND A HURST ON THE FLOOR? I DID - FUCK WHERE IS THAT NOVA NOW !!!!!!!!

[@Angelsthathavenoplace]

This version is PERFECT

[@dustdevl3404]

This is one of the most haunting songs I have ever heard. "With eyes that hate for just being born". What a lyric.

[@ericvoelcker8915]

Ain't it the truth

[@brianwade879]

There are some of us, out in this wild world, who lived that feeling. And some who never survived it. 🎗️

[@katherinepoletto3259]

Isn't it tho. I am 68 now and I feel like I have known it my whole life. Practically have.

[@88Musk]

And just the outro with Dan's organ line over Roy's solo is stunning.

[@ericrichards6252]

A timeless, musical masterpiece

[@V8Deuce]

My buddies and I back in the mid 1980s...cruising downtown Riverside , California. My GTO, and the rest of the cars - 70 Camaro, Impala SS, '67 Olds 442, a '67 Camaro......this song brings me back to those days every time.....

[@marklee2577]

Same here. My brother Phillip in his 77 pro street Z/28 my brother Steve in his pro street Iroc and me in my 69 Z/28 and my best friend John in his 68 Camaro pro street. Made more money street racing than working sometimes

[@lilorbielilorbie2496]

V8Deuce My friends and I where doing the same thing on Van Nuys, Whitter Blvd. Beach Blvd and PCH. Good times for sure. Sadly some of those friends are no longer with us. I miss them a lot.

[@PatGranata]

Bruce’s music is essential, like the rain. He doesn’t just write about love but of longing and of friendship, of life. Our loved ones aren’t just our companions. They’re imperfect beings who nonetheless, despite their flaws, are next to us when we need them most. This song makes me cry not because of Roy’s piano, or Danny’s organ, which Charlie epically replicates in his honor; it makes me cry because it shows me for a brief instant how my loved ones see me. Imperfect but by their side even after they’re gone.

[@lorijohnson2348]

One day, just like Bob Dylan, Bruce should win the Nobel Prize for Literature! ❤️

[@TheAtticradio]

And Neil Young ,

[@RandomGuy15378]

No one does it better than Roy "The Professor" Bittan! What a beautiful song.

[@xrpnation8778]

We'll never again see or listen to a greater band than "THE E STREET BAND".

[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

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[@marysusandodd]

They are Awesome ❤

[@larryeatough4235]

Certain songs you can remember exactly where you were when you heard it the first time . For me I was coming home from work - St Pete Florida late 70s - it's 2022 now and it is still a great song. It is like he meant every word.

[@Charlieczek]

For me it was this year - 2022 - and I heard it 100 times already :)

[@silvanabanks5221]

Belle chanson, BEST OF THE BEST BRUCE SONGS! VERY EMOTIONS and feellings

[@marktaronji4694]

I'm blown away!! I'll never tire of listening to this song.

[@roybelville1495]

A song you want to never end.

[@andy09UK]

Mozart, Beethoven, Sibelius, Bruchner, Mahler, there are many who show us true passion and knowledge in music. We are truly blessed to know the music of Bruce Springsteen and to live in his time. I cannot imagine a day without his music and lyrics. Thank you Bruce.

[@brianwade879]

I'll second that !

[@arnoldbotha2602]

This song will be played at my funeral, when I go racing in the streets....

[@ericwouters5788]

Arnold Botha n

[@fmcgarrity1479]

Mine too

[@ryanaindreas]

have the same plan,

[@agatamazzone4894]

Anche al mio funerale..

[@davepa37]

Mine too. It is his and possibly the greatest song ever written

[@danc3488]

I've heard this song countless times. And that is the absolute BEST version I have EVER heard. That piano solo by Roy was absolutely insane. Gave me chills the entire time.

[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

8kki

[@joestrong2744]

Hear more of Roy on Bowie's Station to Station.

[@mikeyt6785]

Flawless solo by the "Professor"🎹

[@BBApooches]

So many artists would have gotten to the end of the lyrics, given it another 25 seconds of outro and ended the song. Bruce's instincts were so good that he recognized that the best part of the song would develop after he finished singing.

[@CelticFan]

BBApooches the generosity of this, knows no bounds

[@bcal4877]

Sometimes the best thing a genius can do is stand back and let other geniuses be themsleves. This is a good example, Ghost of Tom Joad with Tom Morello another. A lot of “stars” could never check their ego and let it happen, Bruce can, and magic happens...

[@soupdragonuk]

This and Incident both insanely good codas, it's difficult to say which is the best. Racing on 75/85 Live is also a very good version.

[@brianwade879]

​@@bcal4877 Well said. So true. Great examples given. Thank you. ✨

[@JimmyConway70]

Damn.... I wanted it to never end....

[@evelyncea1773]

just have to hear this every day......so beautiful!!!!! (Roy and Max) 😍🥰😍

[@jimwelsh997]

Same here so damn beautiful

[@damianovezzosi]

I have listened to this song thousands of times, thousands. This is by far the best version I have ever heard, I was moved to tears the first time I listened to it. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

[@patyuka8124]

i rode that Asbury Park circuit a thousand times

[@michelehochin7348]

Superbe

[@carlomoiola8544]

Fantastic version, the piano player also is amazing! Do you know if is possible somewhere to get a mp3 version of this live song version? Thanks

[@ZahraIsMyDog]

Carlo Moiola The concert is for sale at Nugs.net, along with the entire tour and 2014 tour.

[@damianovezzosi]

@@patyuka8124 so, now I am moved to tears once again :-) ( by the way, Ocean avenue and Kingsley avenue, right?)

[@Seadweed]

I was 14 and listened to some songs on a dvd. These songs on it, just changed my life! There's only one guy in this world that makes me sleeping two days under a tarp in the rain to see him play... I'm 33 now and stil listening.. almost every single day.. thank you Bruce!

[@debbielarion8821]

This is one of my favorite songs by Bruce! I especially love when they’re jamming together with their instruments!!!❤

[@sharonaldridge3332]

10:22 of sheer heaven. Such a fantastic version. Practically speechless..the piano...

[@patriddell1900]

Good grief,what a version,hairs on the back of my neck on end. Always loved this…always will.

[@ayguitar94]

Roy Bittan makes every key cry notes of hope and of joy. That's the most Bruce tribute I could think of to celebrate this man's uncanny expressions of melody.

[@martinobrien7110]

YOU CAN PLAY THIS AT MY FUNERAL . IT KILLS ME EVERY TIME .

[@johnnyraiderallison851]

GOOD 1 MARTY, IF I MAY. !!!!!!

[@agatamazzone4894]

Suonatela al mio funerale..e andrò in paradiso..

[@richardyoung7415]

With you there my friend. PEACE BE WITH YOU MY FRIEND'S.✌️😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦

[@brianmichael6822]

A song not afraid to go to the darkest part of the soul and come back. Have heard it hundreds of times and never gets old, a true anthem for the working man

[@jasonbarbush4991]

Jesus loves Jesus

[@2beinteresting]

When Jesus returns he will be asking for The Boss of this planet

[@seangrexa4707]

Jesus is my copilot while Racing in the Street.

[@luisleora1]

The longer the ending the better the song I'm blown away!! I'll never tire of listening to this song.

[@johnnyraiderallison851]

+ BORN TO RUN AND ROZALITA !!!!! U GO GIRL !!!!!

[@joea7763]

Well said Marianne I could not of said it better.

[@kaiheyrock3093]

The finest Springsteen tune ever. Dancing In The Street ended so absolute perfectly, I never bought an album of him since then. Nothing else could be better. I respect him, I really do. But nothing can destroy this one. And nothing else could be worthy enough to follow. Love.

[@robbytempSpartan]

The word legendary gets thrown around a lot. However in this case it’s spot on. Legendary song from a legendary artist. The instrumental hits like a hammer every time.

[@wildsmiley]

The best live performance of my very favorite Bruce Springsteen song. Just beautiful.

[@kurtanderson5349]

Wow. The version this summer in Philly was just as longa and inspired, and the highlight of the show.

[@kissmabass]

I can’t listen to this song without crying.

[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

😅ukhf😅😮😢🎉😂❤

[@edurossi3364]

The longer the ending the better the song

[@Bryan-fg3ey]

Edu Rossi My thoughts exactly, I search for a long version when I want to listen to this song,because the longer the version the longer the ending.

[@marktaronji4694]

Less than 9 minutes?? I'll pass.

[@amylebo2000]

Roy B. slays me, he's such a monster talent. I was at this concert and sobbed through the whole song, it's so evocative and poetic. Bruce's voice is particularly amazing here, it cuts like a knife. Maybe not the best choice in a post-COVID universe where everyone is feeling so raw.

[@lizhahn9474]

ok ok this is AMAZING. but it was after the iconic professor racing in the streets @ foxboro and bruce ... understood let the professor fly. but what was nice about this was the film actually filmed the professor more than bruce. ty for this

[@briankent1176]

The professor's fingers rule the stage on this one. I can listen to this masterpiece forevermore

[@anelladambrosio2513]

E vero Brian! 😍🤩😘💘💔💯💯💯

[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

9guuyt😅😮😢🎉😂❤

[@TheJackflash85]

The greatest song ever about street racing! Pure poetry and melody magic ~

[@meone5112]

this is a slower version than normal, the best version I have heard so far. Thank you !

[@umitt492]

Quintisentional Spiringsteen sound. It's a beautiful story and love the way how Bittan takes us on journey. For me it's like the characters driving into the sunset.

[@Blackscorpion1963]

So love this song from The Boss. I can feel this song to its limits. Had my near-death motorcycle accident here in New Zealand in 1990 when I was 26. Ultimately I lost my entire left leg as high up as it gets i.e. my hip joint and left side of my pelvis was amputated. All of the doctors & surgeons who saved my life believed my high fitness level contributed greatly to my survival. I was a successful athlete at the time [road cycling, triathlon, and marathon running]. I went over& over why and what was the cause of my accident however all I discovered was that if I spent anymore time analyzing it and trying to find the answers I would have gone nuts...er. If I have learnt one thing though it is the following, when we are younger and have this and that relationship/s with partners or people who don't love us back as much as we love them and in my instance didn't love me at all...please think about this...yes it is passion and passionate...and intense...and complex, and this and that...BUT guess what? It really isn't. It isn't that important, and that crucial. When you want someone so bad...and they don't want you...please...LET THEM GO. Yes it is as simple as that. Yes you CAN do it. You WILL find someone else. You & them just ain't meant to be. Please stop trying so hard to win them over. As the harder you try and win them, the more they will reject you. Yes it IS rejection. Even though you are completely head over heals loving them [note I never wrote 'in love with them', because that equates to two people loving each other] and yes even obsessed with them like I was...again...let 'em, and in my instance it was a beautiful lady, let 'em GO...Otherwise, when they go and flirt with someone else in front of you and you seeeeeeeeeeeeeeth with confusion...and you take your emotions out with alcohol...and then take that to the ROAD...you WILL pay the consequences. And fall from grace. And in my instance it was easily the greatest fall in my life. At well over 100mph. If you don't want to have your leg instantly amputated at the knee after sliding across the surface of a tar sealed and chipped open road and then impacting with a farmer's paddock concrete fencepost, spend 3 weeks in the ICU [Intensive Care Unit] of two hospitals while you are induced with the most amount of morphine your body can take because you are in so much pain, have your remaining part of your leg contact septicemia [blood poisoning] and be forced to under go a hemipelvectomy operation i.e. amputation of the remaining part of your leg including your hip joint and one side of your pelvis, while surgeons rush to flush your body with 10 units of your blood type so to remove all the septicemia before it reaches your vital organs and you die - have a near-death experience during the massive operation i.e. 'out-of-body' experience in that you see yourself from a distance being operated on, then you see in your mind a tunnel that you travel through at warp speed and on to the 'other side' and in instance I traveled to planet Mars. A voice asked me if I liked it there. As I felt it was cold I replied it was ok but cold. The voice then asked me if I wanted to stay there. I replied no. Then I traveled back through the same tunnel again at warp speed and woke up in the recovery ward of the hospital. Have both your kidneys develop renal failure and spend time on a kidney dialysis machine, sustain severe injuries to your sexual organs, have a testicle amputated [men], gain a colostomy. Sweat profusely for most of the time in the Intensive Care Unit due to high body temperature not be able to drink ANY water other than have your mouth swabbed, lose some of your hair, experience wild hallucinations while dozing intermittently, fear for your life because you believe an Intensive Care Unit nurse is going to kill you [fear of dying is worse than dying], once you begin healing and you leave the ICU and are placed in a General Surgery ward you now are in fear of falling asleep at night because you wonder if you might not wake up in the morning, and after spending a total of 101 days in hospital and you return home you then experience the most intense and amount of nerve PAIN for the rest of your life - yep I've lived now for 31 years with chronic stump nerve/neuropathic pain even though there is no stump, and am forced to ingest the strongest opioid pain medication available, and in the highest dosage, and as a result suffer ALL the heinous side effects as possible, suffer P.T.S.D and have treatment [I was already diagnosed with clinical depression at the age of 20, spent several years in denial off and on medication until my accident], then please do not have a serious road accident after getting rejected by someone you love or you think you love. I have been married for 16 years now after one time thinking in hospital I was a piece of meat and who would want to marry me. My wife and I are as deeply in love now as we were in 2005. My sporting career took off after I left hospital. I became the first lower limb amputee to complete a Half Marathon on crutches on one leg in 1991. I then became the first lower limb amputee to complete a full Marathon on crutches on one leg in 1992. In 1994 I became the World's Fastest A.K.A. [above knee amputee] over the Marathon using crutches on my one good remaining right leg only. My time of 5 hours 58 minutes 13 second. remained unbeaten for 19 years and was finally beaten by an amputee using crutches with inbuilt shock absorbers giving him an advantage over my time because I had used standard hospital issue aluminum alloy crutches without any such hi-tech gadgetry. I use a pair today though! I went to the 1993 New Zealand Disabled Sporting Championships and won 7 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze medal in swimming in the S9 category. I can still ride a mountain bike even though I only have one buttock [right]. I am also able to wear a hemipelvectomy prosthesis and that is a miracle. Life is worth living. Make the most of it because it so SO short and it is not a dress rehearsal. Laugh as much as you possibly can. My favorite song from Bruce Springsteen? Wouldn't it be 'Born To Run'?...well that one is great...however because I rate The Boss probably the BEST story telling music artist of all, I have always loved 'Downbound Train', however my favorite song is off the 'Tunnel Of Love' album 1987. When I was in London in 1988 on my O.E. [overseas experience] from here in New Zealand I was in a tavern with some friends and this song came over the speakers that were placed up high around the walls. At the time it was the very time I had heard it and I instantly loved it. I tried to listen to its lyrics and could make out a few and I thought to myself the artist sounded like The Boss; Bruce Springsteen. Next time I was in the C.B.D. I visited a music store and asked the attendant if they knew of Bruce Springsteen's latest album, and they showed me it. Of course it was 'Tunnel Of Love'. I bought it on cassette tape [still have it]. When I played it the song I'd heard in the pub came on as I recognized it. And the song is? Side One Track #2...'Tougher Than The Rest' "Well It's Saturday night You're all dressed up in blue I been watching you awhile Maybe you been watching me too So somebody ran out Left somebody's heart in a mess Well if you're looking for love Honey I'm tougher than the rest" Please check out my photos from my O.E. in London in 1988 when I was 25. I was fortunate to go to the Pink Floyd gig at Wembley Stadium on Saturday August 6th 1988. Here's some snaps from the gig: www.flickr.com/photos/35707376@N00/29866632340/in/album-72157673246424191/

[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

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[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

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[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

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[@shirelleharris5511]

That was sooooo sad and inspirational. I hope you're doing OK. Bruce's songs bring out all of your most sacred inner feelings. You can't help bit to cry and express how the song made you feel. I'm so full of emotions right now. Yet ,I cry and read. The more I read the comments, the more I cry. Thank You Bruce. This is what's needed. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@markdivento8086]

I am 58 years old from south philly all way loved this song drag racing on front stop brigs back a lot of good memories Bruce and philly will. All way go together

[@jaydaire1043]

Absolutely love this song! I heard this song when I was 17, memorized it and it is part of my soul. This is Springsteen that doesn't get the headlines, or the pop charts, yet I think is his most beautiful and greatest music. Thank you for posting this song!

[@davepa37]

HIs GREATEST song, and one of the GREATEST songs ever written

[@Nalini779]

Always yearned to hear the fade out continue of this song, every time I dropped the needle on this tune. The Darkness & River tours @ The Spectrum in Philly gave the answer. As well as being stage left this very night on 9/9/16. The East Street Band is the definition of musicianship.

[@76gilb]

Quite simply the best song ever written......if I could only have one song on my iPlayer this'd be it

[@sippe3985]

agreed

[@alanpasternack7703]

I love the way Bruce is leaning on the beat, and the Professor ... the Professor is just sitting back, letting that musical space happen. Enter Mighty Max, to frame it all. Damn! That's good stuff.

[@danfitzgerald655]

well said.

[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

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[@FOHguy]

This song and "Telegraph Road" by Dire Straights. Two of my all time favorites

[@057az057]

Michael H Fogg you and I could be friends.

[@HenningOKlejs]

Michael H Fogg They also have very similar piano parts. When I try (with my limited skills) to play the end of Racing in the street I find myself borrowing parts of Telegraph road. They are truly great songs

[@tonypola6358]

I hear you talking

[@evelinabrannstrom9957]

You, my friend, have the best taste in music.

[@berndspielmann1740]

You are so right !

[@dianetrummer2491]

iconic. bruce. amazing songwriter. love & miss these marathon shows.

[@19murphy9696]

I absolutely LOVE the instrumental portion during the last 5 minutes.

[@markjohnstone1618]

spot on, can listen to that all day long

[@ChrisK056]

ROY BITTAN THA GAWD

[@anelladambrosio2513]

@@ChrisK056 Roy! Il maestro! 🥰🤩😍🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶💘❤️💕

[@sttuppidd]

You're Right, the best live version I've heard of Bruce's masterpiece! The guy is soo incredibly talented and this song brings me back to my young self when I owned a 71 "cuda with a 440 six-pack and 4 speed. Boy, do I wish I had it now. That thing was dam fast and we used to race every weekend in Sanford Maine. I also had a '71 Z28 split bumper with a 350/350 and a hurst on the floor, it was a screamer. One of my favorite songs by Bruce. The whole album, "DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN", is a masterpiece! I also love the album, "Nebraska". Thanks for sharing!

[@r.w.7768]

This is one of the most beautiful songs ever made. Thank you for uploading. 🤝

[@Angelsthathavenoplace]

Great version Roy bitten great solo to end the song

[@charlie01546]

My God, you cannot better this. Top version of a great song.

[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

Ppki😅😮😢🎉😂😂

[@nkjrm348]

Bruce played the entire Darkness album in Sydney a few years ago. It was a moment of culimation of journey that started in 1981. Darkness itself is my life story of wanting things that can only be found on the edge of town. Racing is the song that plays on the long lonely journeys we all take. A masterpiece

[@johnhambleton6478]

Was at that Sydney show...just a magical performance 😊

[@desireebudesheim9257]

It IS the best version! Hearing it live there was incredible! Only negative was the drunks in GA next to us shouting and taking during the whole song. Just kept focus on the music. Love it!

[@jonathaneads8610]

Best version yet love this man

[@jimwelsh997]

What a great story and a great peace of music. THANK YOU BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN THE BOSS

[@rogereyles466]

so clear and takes you into his world, another fantastic song, you can imagine him racing in the sreet

[@fireandsafety]

One of his best ever songs....I love it....Seen Bruce 3 times now.....He is AMAZING....A Legend...A Gentlerman...and one of the Greatest...Tony from Middlesbrough UK....Love this Brilliant......I have never heard him sing this live at any concerts I been too.

[@michaelpitts7584]

I love this song. It reminds of when i was young.

[@Norge71]

Thanks for sharing. The band is tight and Bruce is so emotionally locked in - I love this version!

[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

Llo😅😮😢🎉😂😂

[@MargaretWoodty]

I could listen to Bruce Springsteen n The E Street Band everyday of my life,They are Truly Awesome

[@HenningOKlejs]

When I was about 12 I started listening to Bruce, and this song quickly became a great favourite of mine. I remember asking my mom to sit down on my bed and listen to the song in silence. I love the intensity of the original version - the man choir in the third verse and the ending. The best live versions I find are on some of the '78 bootlegs - especially the ones where Bruce's guitar is in tune😉

[@Vandenolan]

And this is why Bruce is the very best there is, I remember seeing them do this at the O2 back a few years ago in London. He was full of a cold but performed this song to perfection. Nice video!

[@richardcarlson6143]

WHEN BRUCE STARTS DOING OLD SCHOOL STUFF ITS STILL BETTER THAN WHAT OUT THERE TODAY

[@janekurabieski6027]

There are no words to describe how awesome this song is. ..best version ever, I am so glad that I got to see it live, thank you BRUCE, you're the best! !

[@mariarosasanjuangomez2028]

Lo😅😮😢🎉😂❤ 2:15

[@allyratcliffe180]

Bruce, you're simply the best. No one comes near, no one. Xx

[@johnnyM809]

Agree 100%

[@anthonylaverghetta3931]

The anthem for every street racer from the 60's 70's and 80's, it was the best of times we will never forget

[@KevinLJ-Photography]

Awesome! I started listening to this song when I was 14. Finally got to hear it live in Sydney 3 years ago. I cried! (damn! I got to hear the whole record live at that show!) I'd had to wait 35 years. Thanks for sharing this, Bruce and the E-Street just keep getting better!

[@lars-peterjonsson7817]

I totally understand how you feel! I had the same experience with Jungleland. It took 30 years and 12 Springsteen-shows before I heard it live. But it was worth waiting for. I got to see it the first time they played it live after Clarence passed away. But I still haven´t heard Racing... live. That´s my next goal. :-)

[@stuartmarrs8807]

awesome !!!

[@383sle]

Kevin LJ I was there to loved every minute of it

[@nkjrm348]

With you brother. Also at the Sydney show. It was a moment that will never leave

[@BobInKC1]

The great Roy Bittan. And the Mighty, Mighty Max.

[@professor_prte]

Professor Roy Bittan has magic in his hands. Few people are able to do what he does.

[@joanneomeara319]

Always loved this beauty of a song, & such an amazingly powerful performance here, wow!!

[@scotmiculan7055]

1978 Cleveland Agora....was pure gold too!!

[@BBApooches]

One other thing I'll add -- the entire band was/is great, and a lot of it is a product of how they blend together. But it took me a long time and I finally realized that one thing that truly defines the sound, so you know it's the E Street Band right away, is that interplay from either side of the stage between Roy Bittan and Danny Federici (and now Charlie Giordano.) Roy has to be as good a virtuoso pianist as there is in rock/pop music.

[@xrysoulachairopoulou4961]

it still makes me cry

[@ford1svt]

Wow - what an awesome version of this song! Spectacular...

[@mikedelong7950]

In 1978 I was on holiday in LA and bought Darkness at Peaches records and tapes on Hollywood Boulevard on good old vinyl.Had to wait till I got home to the uk to play it and this track is by far the best song I have ever heard.I have had the great fortune to have heard it many times played live and it only gets better.God bless you Boss

[@Swashbuckling13]

I was in the crowd for this one! The song hits me very differently now than it did 8 years ago.

[@williephimister3077]

Superb. The Boss and band are the Best of the best

[@anelladambrosio2513]

Willie sono d'accordo con te! Ciao! 😅😍😘💘❤️💋

[@Damian-dv6qx]

Beautiful

[@ammilam1671]

Count yourself among the lucky if you were there. Thanks for sharing for those of us who were not. Roy is amazing.

[@JessBeautyJunkie]

Was there, and moved to tears.

[@76gilb]

Roy is ALWAYS amazing - and yes, at his very best here

[@luzcarrero1288]

SIR;;; Thanks,,,,Amazing last few minutes!!!!🎶🎁🎶🎁🎶

[@niedeutschermeister1]

goosebumps all over...thanks for sharing.