At New York City’s 20th annual “Stand Up for Heroes” benefit at Lincoln Center on Nov. 9, Bruce Springsteen delivered both songs and some off-color jokes, helping to raise a record $5.9 million for veterans.
At the event dedicated to championing real-life heroes, Springsteen delivered what Billboard called a “mini-set of raunchy stand-up comedy” between songs like “Hello Sunshine,” “I’ll Work for Your Love” and “Moonlight Motel.”
Springsteen accompanied himself on an acoustic guitar, rounding out the evening with a rendition of his ‘80s hit song “Dancing in the Dark.” Stepping back from the microphone, the audience belted out every word.
Bruce Springsteen performing at the 20th annual “Stand Up for Heroes” event. Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images.Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images
“It transformed the event from fancy benefit to a room of people simply singing together, raw and unamplified by speakers — a poignant moment of togetherness, especially for those in the crowd who’d undoubtedly danced their way through unimaginable darkness to get to there,” Billboard wrote.
“Dancing in the Dark” was released 42 years ago on May 9, 1984. Written out of an anger-fuelled night, Springsteen poured his emotions into what would become a track on Born in the USA.
“Jon [Landau] had been bothering me to write a single, which is something he rarely does,” Springsteen said to Bill Flanagan in 1987. “But he did that day. And he wanted something direct. That seemed to be what he was hitting on me for at the time. I was angry. I had written a lot of songs and was kind of fed up with the whole thing. We’d been making the record for a long time, and I was bored with the whole situation.”
That night, he went home and sat on the edge of his bed, thinking of how he could change the whole record if he wanted to.
“That’s all I remember thinking: if I wanted to, I could do something right now that would change the whole thing,” Springsteen said.
“Dancing in the Dark” was born, and Springsteen said that the song turned out to be his own “alienation, fatigue, and desire to get out from inside the studio.”
Watch Springsteen’s performance of “Dancing in the Dark” from the “Stand Up for Heroes” event below:
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