Bruce Springsteen has Hampden Park Dancing in the Dark

It may have taken some time to get the train to Hampden Park, with queues snaking around Central Station as fans waited to make in time to the national stadium, but Bruce Springseen's own locomotive inside the crammed stadium was running just fine, thank you very much.

"Woo woo" whooped the audience during crowd-pleasing rockabilly number Johnny 99, before The Boss and Steve Van Zandt indulged in some light-humored guitar interplay, with the E Street Band making sure the tracks kept on rolling during an amazing set which stretched to almost three hours.

It appeared impossibly to imagine how Bruce and co would sustain the energy after a driving Badlands opened the show. No support was needed to elicit an almost evangelical response to the appearance of the veteran rockers on stage, with Springsteen devotees chanting along to every lyric with almost as much energy as the chest-beating frontman himself.

Dripping in sweat by the end of the show - just as well he and the band were clad in black - it was a performance packed with such good-time gusto that even those with little knowledge of his back catalogue were long since won over by the time the band finished a well received cover of rock 'n' classic Twist and Shout - not that he didn't have his own hits to wow the crowd with.

Springsteen had preceded that extended call-and-response number by joking that Scotland had no more to give - ooh, as though, you cheeky beggar! - though that wouldn't have been surprising given the euphoric reaction to Born To Run and Dancing in the Dark, both of which had just been reeled out.

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