WATCH: Springsteen’s Purple Rain

“WHY IS THIS NIGHT DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER NIGHTS?
The Color Purple Reigns in Brooklyn, 4/23
Saturday night’s performance in Brooklyn should have been something of a celebration. The River tour 2016, now 36 shows strong, was pulling in for two performances before heading to Europe. The tour has been remarkable for casting that record’s 20 tracks in such a strong light, particularly because about half of them disappeared for so long after 1981. But the night belonged to just one number, and it was one that Bruce Springsteen neither wrote nor likely ever gave serious thought to performing: Prince’s “Purple Rain.””

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