Overview
- Springsteen played a sold-out concert for 58,131 fans at Milan’s San Siro on June 30, delivering a nearly three-hour performance supported only by three megascreens
- The show commemorated the 40th anniversary of his first San Siro appearance and was his ninth visit to the stadium on the “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour
- He denounced the Trump administration as “corrupt, incompetent and treacherous” and called on attendees to raise their voices against authoritarianism
- Steven Van Zandt returned to the stage just ten days after an appendectomy, underscoring the E Street Band’s solidarity
- The setlist opened with “No Surrender” and featured politically framed highlights like “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “Rainmaker,” and “Long Walk Home”