Bruce Springsteen to Release Live Albums of European Tour

Billboard.com reports as Bruce Springsteen just wrapped his five-show swing through England and Ireland, he decided to release each one as a live album. One show a week will be available starting June 15, with each also receiving a broadcast on the Boss' SiriusXM E Street Radio channel.

The River Tour: Europe 2016 kicked off with a May 14 show in Barcelona and included stops in Lisbon, Madrid, Dublin and London; it will continue through a July 31 date in Zurich.

According to Springsteen's official site, he will also release his beloved solo acoustic performances in support of the Christic Institute at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium from November 1990, The Christic Shows, November 16 & 17, 1990. The two-night stand featured the premiere of four then-new songs from the rocker's Human Touch album ("Real World," "57 Channels (and Nothin' On)," "The Wish" and "Soul Driver"), as well as the premiere of "Red Headed Woman" and "When the Lights Go Out." Both shows -- which featured guest spots from Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne joining Springsteen for Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" and Ry Cooder's "Across the Borderline," will be available as a three-CD set and as downloads.

Bruce Springsteen is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", Springsteen is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, Americana, working class and sometimes political sentiments centered on his native New Jersey, his distinctive voice and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running over three hours in length.

Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born to Run (1975) and Born in the U.S.A. (1984), showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life. He has sold more than 64 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. He has earned numerous awards for his work, including 20 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award as well as being inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.

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