“Is Bruce Springsteen the one they call 'The King'?” said the guy sitting behind us while waiting for Bruce to start the show in Gothenburg a few days ago.
“No,
that's Michael Jackson, isn't it?” answered his girlfriend.
“No
way, Elvis Presley is the King,” the somewhat older man sitting
next to them said firmly. “Michael Jackson is called The King of Pop.”
“By
the way, do you know that a colleague at my office told me a great
Elvis story?” the man continued. “He told me that his father had
visited the States on business sometime in the seventies. He came to
a town, I don't remember which one, and to his great pleasure saw
that Elvis was going to perform there. But then he started thinking
that maybe it would be better to bring his whole family to a show
with Elvis. Seeing as they were planning a trip to the States the
year after, he decided to wait. Boy, was that a mistake. Before the
trip with the family Elvis died, so he really missed his chance to
see the king.”
“Ah!
Now I remember, Bruce is called The Boss!” exclaimed the younger
guy who started the whole conversation.
The
above conversation was overheard by me and my wife right before the
Bruce Springsteen concert in Gothenburg on July 28. There being over
66,000 people in the audience, what were the chances of an Elvis fan
like me getting seats just in front of a guy telling an Elvis story?
Still, that's what happened.
Unfortunately,
another Elvis connection that I sat hoping for during the actual
show, never materialized. The Boss didn't salute the King with a
cover of “Burning Love” this time, like he did in Firenze, Italy,
earlier this year on the same tour. My wife shouted “Burning Love”
valiantly a couple of times, but with thousands and thousands of
screaming Bruce Springsteen fans between her and the stage, it was a
hopeless effort.
Still,
the show was a fantastic one, and the day after I watched the “Burning Love” performance on YouTube, noticing that it was sung
on my birthday, no less. Kind of an Elvis connection as well, I
guess.
Technical
advisor for this post was my wife.
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