E Street Shuffle Archive

It took four decades, but Bruce finally got around to covering the most acclaimed song of all time. Take a listen inside.

LeAnn Rimes has long and often cited “Secret Garden” as one of her favorite songs. In a 2018 in-studio performance, she showed us why, illuminating Bruce’s often-misunderstood song with tender sorrow.

Bruce’s “Out in the Street” is essentially the same song as The Easybeats’ “Friday on My Mind,” a fact Bruce playfully acknowledged by playing them back-to-back in Sydney.

Daring, edgy, and absolutely fantastic: watch Sara McLeod nail the spirit of Bruce’s greatest hit in an amazing cover performance.

One time only: Bruce becomes an honorary Beach Boy when he joins Brian Wilson on stage for “Surfin’ U.S.A.”

Bruce quoted it in “Born to Run” and imitated its sound, and in 1976 he finally had the chance to perform it with its original artist: Listen to Bruce Springsteen and Ronnie Spector play Spector’s signature “Be My Baby.”

Queen’s Roger Taylor picks up the pace in his cover of Bruce’s “Racing in the Street.” It moves faster, but is it still moving?

One time only: Bruce joins The Wallflowers on their 1996 deep cut, “God Don’t Make Lonely Girls,” when the band’s 1997 tour brings them to Bruce’s neck of the woods.

Scottish band Camera Obscura makes a subtle change to Bruce’s enduring, romantic “Tougher Than the Rest,” to powerful effect.

One of the last songs Buckwheat Zydeco recorded in the studio was a reggae reinvention of Bruce’s torch song, “Back in Your Arms.” And it works.