Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney Cut Off in London

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 07/15/2012 - 13:53

Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney Cut Off in London: Festival Organizers Pull the Plug as Legends Push Curfew
http://www.spinner.com/2012/07/15/bruce-springsteen-paul-mccartney-london/

Steven Van Zandt was furious about the decision.

"One of the great gigs ever in my opinion. But seriously, when did England become a police state?" he wrote in the first of several tweets.

"We break curfews in every country but only English cops needs to 'punish us' by not letting us leave until the entire crowd goes," he added. "Is there just too much fun in the world? We would have been off by 11 if we'd done one more. On a Saturday night! Who were we disturbing?"

Van Zandt later said there are "no grudges to be had," and he drew parallels between the aborted encore and the Beatles' famous 1969 performance atop the Apple headquarters.

"Ha! @raindogs70 just reminded me how the Beatles' rooftop concert ended," he tweeted. "Not much has changed in 43 years!"

Comments

Calinda (not verified)

Sun, 07/15/2012 - 13:54

I know we like our "Boss" until the "weeeeee" hours of the morn.

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JR Harris

Sun, 07/15/2012 - 14:03

You're kind of acting dis-joined. You know like that powerlessness stuff of the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous does to people?

"Tradition 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the AA name ought never be drawn into public controversy." Please follow orders from the Interchurch Center if you are an AA member and don't comment.

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Orange

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 16:41

Those police just got no respect. That was indeed one of the classic all-time concerts. As old as those musicians are getting to be, there may not be very many more of them. That was a historic occasion. I hope somebody videotaped it.

Calinda (not verified)

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 16:57

Orange, very well put. The legends of our past are falling by the wayside. I would have given anything to have been there. I would have stood in front of the police myself and been threatened with being arrested. Well maybe not, being in an English slammer I heard is not fun.

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Conan

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 17:19

Danny's just changed over to Cox Communications too.

Oh dear. That's embarrassing. You seem to have the same IP address as RandleO and Danny. I don't understand this technical stuff. How does that work then Calinda?

Danny is currently "Rachel" - watch out folks, he's learned how to use a spell checker...lol