Plenty of rock artists have introduced, launched into and accomplished farewell excursions in recent times. Bruce Springsteen just isn’t certainly one of them and he has no plans to take action sooner or later.

“We’ve been around for 50 fuckin’ years, and we ain’t quitting!” he stated throughout his live performance in Philadelphia on Friday evening. “We ain’t doing no farewell tour bullshit! Jesus Christ! No farewell tour for the E Street Band! Farewell to what? A thousand people screaming your name? Get the hell out. I ain’t going anywhere!”

You can watch a clip of the Boss making the decree beneath.

Springsteen’s Recent Touring

Springsteen’s previous few years of touring haven’t precisely gone in accordance with plan. He was pressured to postpone a complete of 20 live shows in 2023 whereas he underwent remedy for peptic ulcer illness. Then, a vocal situation induced him to postpone a number of European reveals earlier this yr.

“My diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make the effort to sing, it was killing me, you know?” he defined on SiriusXM’s E Street Radio (through Deadline). “So, I literally couldn’t sing at all, you know, and that lasted for two or three months, along with just a myriad of other painful problems.”

He lastly resumed touring on June 12 and has been on the street since. His subsequent present is scheduled for Sept. 7 in Washington, D.C.

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