Was Bruce Springsteen's the best Super Bowl halftime party?
BY LAUREN JOHNSTON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, February 2nd 2009, 10:26 AM
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band promised Super Bowl viewers a 12-minute party – and what the Boss promises, the Boss delivers.
Before he started singing – a wild-eyed, crazy-haired Springsteen demanded that at-home viewers “put the chicken fingers down and turn your television all the way up.”
He kicked off the show with the ever-rousing “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” roared into “Born to Run,” tore through to a cut from his new album “Working on a Dream,” (promoting it was the whole reason he did the show anyways) – and raced to the finish full-throttle with “Glory Days.”
Springsteen had turned down several invitations to play the Super Bowl and finally said yes for XLIII following on the heels of other big name acts who had deemed the show a worthy stage.
So how did the E Street Band compare the other big names to grace the Super Bowl stage? You tell us which in recent years was best:
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So far, the tribe has spoken and Bruce is dominating:
