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| Tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band | |
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| Associated album | Darkness on the Edge of Town |
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| Start date | May 23, 1978 |
| End date | January 1, 1979 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 115 |
| Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert chronology | |
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Darkness Tour was a concert tour of North America that ran from May 1978 through the rest of the year, in conjunction with the release of Springsteen's album Darkness on the Edge of Town. Like most Springsteen tours it had no official name; while this is the most commonly used, it is also sometimes referred to as the Darkness on the Edge of Town Tour or most simply the 1978 Tour.
The tour has since become viewed as perhaps Springsteen's best in a storied career of concert performances. Biographer Dave Marsh wrote in 1987, "The screaming intensity of those '78 shows are part of rock and roll legend in the same way as Dylan's 1966 shows with the Band, the Rolling Stones' tours of 1969 and 1972, and the Who's Tommy tour of 1969: benchmarks of an era."