Bruce’s one-man show behind "Devils & Dust" featured a fleet of guitars and other stringed instruments, keyboards, grand piano and a pump organ. Centered on songs like "Matamoros Banks," "Reno" and "Jesus Was an Only Son," setlists reached deep into his catalog — from "Song for Orphans" and "Backstreets" to "Frankie" and "Drive All Night." Most nights closed with his haunting take on Suicide’s "Dream Baby Dream," a fitting benediction for a tour about faith and endurance. The final stop came in

Bruce played his first show overseas on this day 50 years ago, in London. Bruce later wrote that the night felt like "a movie playing in my head." Despite the angst, the music he and the E Street Band performed — later released as "Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75" — struck different notes: bold, confident and unmistakably ready for the world, prepared by years of rough gigs. After stops in Stockholm and Amsterdam, they returned to London for “a blaze of a show” — the start of a long and lasting bo