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Bruce Springsteen<\/a> delivered one of the most euphoric sets of music in 2023 at Wembley the majority of people in the stadium had ever seen. Then, to top things off, the E Street Band left the stage, and Springsteen closed the night with just his voice and an acoustic guitar, playing \u2018I\u2019ll See You In My Dreams\u2019. <\/p>\n On the original recording, it\u2019s not just an acoustic performance, but he decided to play it like that for the live shows, which makes sense from a set perspective, given the hours that build up to it are massive. It\u2019s a nice, calm way to end the evening, but looking at what the song is about, it also feels like a much more personal way to perform it too.\u00a0<\/p>\n When Springsteen released the track, he dedicated it to music executive Michael Gudinski, with whom he had worked previously, and was good friends with; thus, when he passed away in March 2021, \u2018The Boss\u2019 wanted to commemorate him, which he did with this song that reflected on memories, and highlighted the fact that his close collaborator lives on in his mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n While someone may not be with us anymore, we can see them in our dreams often, which is quite a beautiful thing, and when we allow our memories to overlap with dreams, they can have a real profound power on us. Of course, our dreams don\u2019t just serve as memories, but they can also serve as inspiration, especially for musicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n You never truly know where creativity is going to strike; it can sometimes take people an age to finalise an idea, while for other people, they may just stumble across creative ideas in the most unlikely of places, in this instance, dreams. Paul McCartney famously came up with ideas in his dreams, as the classic \u2018Yesterday\u2019 was penned by his sleeping subconscious<\/a>, but these ideas didn\u2019t come to Springsteen quite as quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cUsually what happens is you dream a song you\u2019re writing, and you think it\u2019s fantastic. Then you wake up and it\u2019s always not,\u201d explained the musician, \u201cYou know, there\u2019s something in the dream that feels great but when you wake up it\u2019s like \u2018Oh, this is\u2026 never mind\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n While this was the case the majority of times, there was one instance when Springsteen dreamt up a song and managed to create something fun to listen to out of it. Where normally he would take the foundation of an idea, try to flesh it out, and the end product wouldn\u2019t feel right, this was one instance where everything came together as planned, leading to the album<\/a> it found itself on to be incredibly appropriately named.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe only song I ever got out of a dream is a song [and] nobody\u2019s really gunna know what it is, it\u2019s a song called \u2018Surprise Surprise\u2019 from my Working on a Dream record,\u201d he said, explaining, \u201cFor some reason I dreamt that song, woke up, wrote it, it came out pretty good, but that\u2019s the only song I\u2019ve ever grabbed out of a dream that ended up being anything.\u201d<\/p>\n Lightning doesn\u2019t always strike twice, as this is still the only track Springsteen has clawed from the maws of sleep; however, that fact alone makes the song even more of a surprise than the original title suggests.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Disney Plus) Mon 24 November 2025 20:00, UK Bruce Springsteen delivered one of the most euphoric sets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[7627,88720,77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-591753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bruce-springsteen","9":"tag-e-street-band","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115607467114515189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}