Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to Play Boston's Historic Fenway Park; First Rock Concert Ever Held at Ballpark.

Entertainment Editors/Business Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2003

Tickets go on sale June 27th for September 6th concert.

Currently in the final week of a hugely successful European tour, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform in concert, Saturday, September 6 at the home of the Red Sox, Boston's Fenway Park. The date will be announced tonight during the Red Sox home game in the storied baseball park.

Tickets will go on sale Friday, June 27th at 10:00 a.m. at the Orpheum Theatre box office and through Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster.com, or by calling [phone]. Tickets will not be available at the Fenway Park box office. Clear Channel Entertainment will promote the event.

According to Springsteen's longtime manager Jon Landau, "Bruce and the E Street Band are thrilled to be playing the first rock concert ever at Fenway Park. We know what Fenway means to the people of Boston and are very appreciative to the Boston Red Sox for the opportunity to play at this great symbol of the city of Boston. It will be a night we all remember."

This date extends Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 2002-2003 tour, widely considered the best and most successful in the world of the last year. Since it began on August 7, 2002, Springsteen and the E Street Band have sold an astonishing near-3 million tickets worldwide, including 1.1 million on their current 24 date, 13 city European tour and 900,000 so far for this summer's US stadium tour. Additional stadium dates will be announced in July, with the tour expected to end on or around September 30.

Besides sold-out success in Europe, Springsteen and the E Street Band are grabbing peak critical notice, with the London Guardian called the Band's recent show at Crystal Palace Athletics Ground, "impossibly stirring," while the London Times called the show "three hours of sustained brilliance, five out of five stars."

The concert prompted the Daily Telegraph's David Cheal to remark, "Whenever I witness one of Bruce's live appearances, everything else I've ever seen seems like the work of rank amateurs."

Elsewhere in Europe, the Netherlands' Algemeen Dagblad wrote of Springsteen and the Band's show in Rotterdam, "Springsteen made clear from the first note that he remains one of the best stadium artists in the world." French publication Sud Ouest called Springsteen "King of the Stadium."

The concert in Fenway Park is part of a special series of live dates announced today. Concerts at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Keman Stadium in Chapel Hill, NC, Ralph J. Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, NY, Comerica Park in Detroit, and Miller Park in Milwaukee, WI, were also announced today.

Springsteen's latest album, 'The Rising,' was released by Columbia Records on July 30, 2003.

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About Fenway Park

Fenway Park opened in 1912, with the first official baseball game on April 20th when the Red Sox defeated the New York Highlanders (now Yankees) in front of a crowd of 27,000. The new ballpark was named by then Red Sox owner John I. Taylor, who chose the name because "It's in the Fenway section of Boston". The largest crowd ever assembled at Fenway Park was 47,627 during a Red Sox / Yankees doubleheader in 1935. Though many renovations have occurred since its grand-opening in 1912, Fenway Park has remained virtually the same, although stringent laws of today prevent a capacity of the magnitude seen in 1935. Today, the capacity of Fenway Park is 33,871.