Following an extraordinary set of dates last summer, including headline performances by Adele – BST Hyde Park is back for 2023. Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band have announced that they will play the festival on Thursday 6th and Saturday 8th July 2023. 

Springsteen was the first act confirmed for BST Hyde Park 2023 in what will be the festival’s 10th anniversary.

The London dates will form part of Springsteen and The E Street Band’s much-anticipated 2023 international tour, which will also see them play Edinburgh’s BT Murrayfield Stadium on Tuesday 30th May and Villa Park on Friday 16th June.

The tour will be the first they’ve gone on together since 2016’s 14 month long The River Tour, which rounded off in Australia back in 2017.

This year’s BST Hyde Park included stellar headline performances from the likes of Eagles, Adele, The Rolling Stones and Pearl Jam.

Full 2023 Tour Dates

02-14 Houston, TX – Toyota Center
02-16 Austin, TX – Moody Center
02-18 Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center
02-21 Tulsa, OK – BOK Center
02-25 Portland, OR – Moda Center
02-27 Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
03-02 Denver, CO – Ball Arena
03-05 Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
03-07 Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum
03-09 Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
03-12 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun
03-14 Albany, NY – MVP Arena
03-16 Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
03-18 State College, PA – Bryce Jordan Center
03-20 Boston, MA – TD Garden
03-23 Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center
03-25 Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Coliseum
03-27 Washington, D.C. – Capital One Arena
03-29 Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
04-01 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
04-03 Brooklyn, NY – Barclays Center
04-05 Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
04-07 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Arena
04-09 Elmont, NY – UBS Arena
04-11 Elmont, NY – UBS Arena
04-14 Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
04-28 Barcelona, Spain – Estadi Olímpic
04-30 Barcelona, Spain – Estadi Olímpic
05-05 Dublin, Ireland – RDS Arena
05-07 Dublin, Ireland – RDS Arena
05-09 Dublin, Ireland – RDS Arena
05-13 Paris, France – La Défense Arena
05-15 Paris, France – La Défense Arena
05-18 Ferrara, Italy – Parco Urbano G. Bassani
05-21 Rome, Italy – Circo Massimo
05-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Johan Cruijff Arena
05-27 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Johan Cruijff Arena
05-30 Edinburgh, Scotland – BT Murrayfield Stadium
06-11 Landgraaf, Netherlands – Megaland
06-13 Zurich, Switzerland – Stadion Letzigrund
06-16 Birmingham, England – Villa Park
06-18 Werchter, Belgium – Festivalpark Werchter
06-21 Düsseldorf, Germany – Merkur Spiel Arena
06-24 Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi
06-26 Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi
06-28 Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi
06-30 Oslo, Norway – Voldsløkka
07-02 Oslo, Norway – Voldsløkka
07-06 London, England – BST Hyde Park
07-08 London, England – BST Hyde Park
07-11 Copenhagen, Denmark – Parken
07-13 Copenhagen, Denmark – Parken
07-15 Hamburg, Germany – Volksparkstadion
07-18 Vienna, Austria – Ernst Happel Stadion
07-21 Hockenheim, Germany – Hockenheimring
07-23 Munich, Germany – Olympiastadion
07-25 Monza, Italy – Prato della Gerascia, Autodromo di Monza
08-09 Chicago, IL – Wrigley Field
08-16 Philadelphia, PA – Citizens Bank Park
08-18 Philadelphia, PA – Citizens Bank Park
08-24 Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium
08-28 Washington, D.C. – Nationals Park
08-30 East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
09-01 East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
09-07 Syracuse, NY – JMA Wireless Dome
09-09 Baltimore, MD – Oriole Park at Camden Yards
09-12 Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
11-03 Vancouver, British Columbia – Rogers Arena
11-06 Edmonton, Alberta – Rogers Place
11-08 Calgary, Alberta – Scotiabank Saddledome
11-10 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Canada Life Centre
11-14 Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena
11-16 Toronto, Ontario – Scotiabank Arena
11-18 Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian Tire Centre
11-20 Montreal, Quebec – Centre Bell
11-30 Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center
12-04 Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
12-06 Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum
12-08 San Francisco, CA – Chase Center

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In partnership with Higher Ground, Penguin Random House announced today 26^th October, 2021, global publication of RENEGADES: Born in the USA, a collection of candid, intimate, and entertaining conversations between Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen.

RENEGADES: Born in the USA chronicles the conversation Obama and Springsteen began in Spotify’s co-produced podcast of the same name, which is one of the the most listened-to podcast globally on the Spotify platform. During these intimate conversations, they share exclusive stories and ruminations about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions. Published in an oversized, fully illustrated format, RENEGADES also features rare and exclusive photographs from the authors’ personal collections and never-before-seen archival material, including Springsteen’s handwritten lyrics and Obama’s annotated speeches, offering a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders—one Black and one white—who have helped shape the American story.

Over a number of days, President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen sat down to talk. From disparate backgrounds and lived experiences, they would seem to have little in common. But as President Obama shares in the opening pages of RENEGADES:

“Over the years, what we’ve found is that we’ve got a shared sensibility. About work, about family, and about America. In our own ways, Bruce and I have been on parallel journeys trying to understand this country that’s given us both so much. Trying to chronicle the stories of its people. Looking for a way to connect our own individual searches for meaning and truth and community with the larger story of America.”   

In RENEGADES: Born in the USA, readers are invited to sit alongside these two longtime friends, in a recording studio stocked with dozens of guitars and during at least one Corvette ride, as they discuss marriage and fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call back to home, some of the most inspiring American heroes of all time, and music. . . . They talk a lot about music.

Along the way, they reveal their passion for—and the occasional toll of—telling a bigger, truer story about America throughout their careers and explore how our fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity.

As Springsteen shares in his introduction to RENEGADES:

“There were serious conversations about the fate of the country, the fortune of its citizens, and the destructive, ugly, corrupt forces at play that would like to take it all down. This is a time of vigilance when who we are is being seriously tested. Hard conversations about who we are and who we want to become can perhaps serve as a small guiding map for some of our fellow citizens. . . . This is a time for serious consideration of who we want to be and what kind of country we will leave our children. Will we let slip through our hands the best of us or will we turn united to face the fire? Within this book you won’t find the answers to those questions, but you will find a couple of seekers doing their best to get us to ask better questions.”

And as President Obama writes, “the conversations Bruce and I had in 2020 feel as urgent today as they did back then. They represent our ongoing effort to figure out how it is that we got here, and how we can tell a more unifying story that starts to close the gap between America’s ideals and its reality.”

The English-language print edition, to be published in the UK and Ireland by Viking, an imprint of Penguin General Books at Penguin Random House UK, will be 320 pages long and include more than 350 full-color photographs and illustrations with a suggested list price of £35. The digital edition will be priced at £15.99.

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