Bruce Springsteen opened the Super Bowl Halftime Show tonight (video embedded below) standing back to back with Clarence Clemons, a silhouetted recreation of the cover to his watershed album Born To Run. “I want you to step back from the guacamole dip,” he says after tossing his guitar in the air. “I want you to put the chicken fingers down and turn your television all the way up. And what I want to know is: Is there anybody alive out there?”
He then gets the crowd dancing with “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” followed by a complete performance of “Born to Run,” then the title track from his new album Working on a Dream, and finally “Glory Days.”
Watch part one:
Watch part two: