Springsteen in Hyde Park

[Michael Palaeologus]

A relative of Gary "US" Bonds perchance?

[Keef]

seems they always hold a few back for on the day sales.

Yep, quite common. My friend walked in to the O2 the day Foo Fighters were playing, for an unrelated reason, and ended up getting a ticket for that nights "sold out" gig, and didn't have to pay a stupid booking fee.

[Mick Mac]

I thought Jungleland was the best song he did at Hyde Park (amongst many other good ones).

My mate told me of the 1975 London gigs at Hammersmith where he first made himself known in the UK, so I looked them up and youtube have fantastic excerpts of most of the songs from those 1975 gigs.

Hes a cool guy at 59 but this he was cool here, 34 years earlier, Just the first few bars of the keyboard on jungleland make great listening: