{"id":595440,"date":"2026-04-10T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595440\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:46:08","slug":"watch-bruce-springsteen-cover-purple-rain-in-high-def","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595440\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bruce Springsteen Cover \u201cPurple Rain\u201d in High-Def"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening their <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/bruce-springsteen-and-the-e-street-band-announce-2026-us-arena-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Land of Hope and Dreams tour<\/a> in Minneapolis last week (March 31), <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/4053-bruce-springsteen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a>, the E Street Band, and special guest <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/19422-tom-morello\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Morello<\/a> honored hometown legend <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/3397-prince\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince<\/a> with a faithful cover of \u201cPurple Rain.\u201d Fan recordings proliferated, and now, that performance has been immortalized\u2014as much as anything on the internet can be\u2014with an official video. The Boss\u2019 anti-ICE anthem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/bruce-springsteen-rallies-against-trump-and-ice-in-new-protest-song-streets-of-minneapolis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Streets of Minneapolis<\/a>,\u201d along with its introductory spoken-word missive, got the same treatment. Check out the pair of them below.<\/p>\n<p>The Land of Hope and Dreams tour continues across U.S. arenas this month, with East Coast dates carrying the band through to late May. The latest in a string of archival Bruce releases was October\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/bruce-springsteen-nebraska-82-expanded-edition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nebraska \u201982: Expanded Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Revisit Pitchfork\u2019s rundown of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/9700-the-200-best-songs-of-the-1980s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s<\/a>, with \u201cPurple Rain\u201d at the summit and a pair of Springsteen tracks for good measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening their Land of Hope and Dreams tour in Minneapolis last week (March 31), Bruce Springsteen, the E&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,15817,75,341,1062],"class_list":{"0":"post-595440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cover","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}