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Michelle Obama hops onstage to sing 'Glory Days' with 'The Boss'


Rock n’ roll icons Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band were back in the Rose City Saturday night, playing a sold out show at the Moda Center on February 25, 2023. (Photo by Tristan Fortsch for KATU)
Rock n’ roll icons Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band were back in the Rose City Saturday night, playing a sold out show at the Moda Center on February 25, 2023. (Photo by Tristan Fortsch for KATU)
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She may be the former first lady, but he's the Boss.

Michelle Obama made a guest appearance with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band at the first of the group's two concerts in Barcelona's olympic stadium Friday night.

As Springsteen, 73, and his 16-piece band launched into the opening riff of "Glory Days" from the "Born in the USA" album, the Boss called for his wife and occasional bandmate Patti Scialfa to join the group on stage.

His red-headed woman came dancing onstage with a pair of girlfriends following: Ms. Obama as well as Kate Capshaw, retired actress wife of filmmaker Steven Spielberg.

The trio of famous ladies hopped on an open microphone and rattled tambourines while joining in with the E Street band to sing the anthemic chorus to a song about good-years and good-times goneby.

Members of the audience who filmed the video also caught former President Barack Obama and Spielberg hanging out in an exclusive-VIP guest zone to the side of the stage.

The trio of couples – the Springsteens, the Obamas and the Spielbergs – had dinner the night before at the Barcelona Palace Hotel’s Amar restaurant, which was revealed when employee Pol Perello posted a picture of the celebrities with the restaurant staff to his Instagram with the caption, "Pleasures that this job brings you!!"

Springsteen and the band recently completed a run of 28 arena shows across the U.S., their first in seven years, that saw them play songs from across their 50 years together as a group (leading Rolling Stone to dub it the "Other 'Era's Tour'" in reference to Taylor Swift's current career-spanning run of shows).

The tone of the shows draw heavily on the band's most recent album, 2020's "Letter To You," which sees Springsteen reflect heavily on age and mortality as a rock n roll musician.

The group returns to the states in August for another leg of the tour, performing in sports stadiums across the East Coast and Midwest and more areans across the lower 48.

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