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Paul Campbell Haider
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Unpatriotic expatriate/International interloper. Former Chicagoan residing in Weybridge, England.🐻⚾️🧢🍕✈️🇬🇧😎 Democratic socialist witnessing American democracy’s death from Comrade Agent Orange Clown becoming Dear Orange Leader Turd(DOLT)🇷🇺🤡💩🚨Bruuuuuuuce!!!🇺🇸🧑🏻‍🦱🎸🎷
Sunday, November 25, 1984: Dallas, TX, Reunion Arena, photo(Four years after revealing who shot J.R. Ewing on the television show “Dallas,” Bruce got down on a bending knee to prove it all night in the godforsaken state of more guns than guitars despite its music town of Austin 🇺🇸⛽️💰🤠🔫🚨📺🧑🏻‍🦱🎸 🔫🚨🤠🪕)
November 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Saturday, November 25, 1978: St. Louis, MO, Kiel Opera House, poster(Two nights after Thanksgiving and a week beyond the Jonestown massacre in Guyana, Bruce was thankful to be on the road with the E Street Band despite their concert in the Midwest being far from a sell-out 🇬🇾🍷☠️🚨🦃🙏🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷🎩🎸😎🎹👻🎹🧑🏻‍🦱🎸🤓🥁🇺🇸🚨)
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🇮🇹✝️⛪️🎤🎹 “The screen door slams, Mary’s dress sways.” Suddenly, Bob Prevost remembered being a White Sox fan and performed “Sweet Home Chicago” to honour his fellow Catholics of Jake and Elwood Blues from the Southside of the windy city.🇺🇸🌊💨⚾️🧢🌭🍕🎸✝️⛪️😎🚔😎🚓 🚨
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sunday, November 24, 1996: Asbury Park, NJ, Paramount Theatre, photo(A recovering Catholic from Freehold didn’t attend Mass in the morning, as the local hero Bruce wasn’t needing any prayers for having a successful night in Asbury Park ✝️⛪️🙏🚨🇺🇸🧔🏻‍♂️🪕🌊🏖️🎪🎰🎡🎲😎)
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Monday, November 24, 1975: London, England, Hammersmith Odeon, poster(Finally, London was ready for Bruce’s “extra show” from 50 years ago tonight when the dismissive critics who attended opening night missed the superior concert 🇬🇧✍️📰🧔🏻‍♂️🎸👨🏾🎷😎🎹🎩🎸👻🎹🧔🏻‍♂️🎸🤓🥁👍🏻)
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Sunday thoughts from a devout atheist. If your “JC” from Jerusalem isn’t working out due to being a fictional character based on Yeshua ben Yosef, then consider Georgia’s nonfictional “JC” who was a real Christian instead of a Jewish zombie. Donald Trump will never join Jimmy in heaven! ✡️🧟‍♂️🚨🇺🇸😁✝️😇🇷🇺🤡😈🔥
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Tuesday, November 22, 2016: Washington, DC, The White House, photo(The Boss and the POTUS were blood brothers from another mother? Mrs. Adele Springsteen and Dr. Ann Dunham knew their sons were destined for greatness, as they didn’t deliver the spawn of Satan as done by Mary Anne Trump 👩🏻🇺🇸🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🫡🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👱🏻‍♀️🇷🇺🤡😈)
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Theresa, are you the photographer for these images of Bruce and the E Street Band from 1980? These are wonderful photographs, and my guess is that you shot them in December of 1980 at Boston Gardens. Would that accurate? 👩🏻📸🇺🇸🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Thursday, November 21, 1985: Freehold, NY, “My Hometown” single released(The album Born In the USA’s seventh and final single to reach the Top Ten was released a month before Christmas, as Bruce included “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” as the B-side of the 45 🧑🏻‍🦱🎸🇺🇸💿📻🥶❄️🎄🎅🏻🛷🎁👨🏾🎷😎)
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Tuesday, November 21, 1978: Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, McGaw Hall, photo(Bruce prevented Northwestern University’s Wildcats basketball team from losing another home game by using their gym for the night, as he opened his second set with “The Ties That Bind” 🇺🇸🏫📚🧑🏼‍🎓👨🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓👩🏼‍🎓🏀🏟️🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷)
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Tuesday, November 21, 1978: Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, McGaw Hall, photo(Big Man and Bad Scooter busted the liberal little city in half four years after my birth there…in the same hospital where Bruce’s first wife was born in May of 1960! 👨🏾🎷🧑🏻‍🦱🎸🇺🇸 🌊 🍂 🏫📚🧑🏼‍🎓👩🏼‍🎓👨🏼‍🎓👩🏼‍🎓 🏥👶🏻🚨)
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Friday, November 20, 2009: Baltimore, MD, 1st Mariner Arena, setlist(The penultimate night of the Working On a Dream tour resulted in a hot concert featuring a total of 31 songs 🇺🇸🌊🦀🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷)
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Friday, November 20, 2009: Baltimore, MD, 1st Mariner Arena, photo(For the penultimate night of the Working On a Dream tour, Bruce performed a concert in Baltimore for the first time since June of 1973 when he was the opening act for Peter Etcetera and his band Chicago 🇺🇸🌊🦀🧔🏻‍♂️🎸👨🏾🎷🚨 🎤🧑🏼🎺🎹 🎺)
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Friday, November 20, 2009: Baltimore, MD, 1st Mariner Arena, ticket(Twenty-nine years after the fans’ ritual of singing “Hungry Heart” originated in Illinois, Bruce returned to the scene of the crime in Maryland where he abandoned his “wife and kids” during the summer of 1979 📻💿♥️🧑🏻‍🦱🎸🎹🇺🇸🌊🦀🛣️ 🚘👩🏻🧒🏻👧🏻🚨)
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Thursday, November 20, 1980: Rosemont, IL, Rosemont Horizon, Wreck On the Highway bootleg(This recording was in my possession and added to my iPod before it went kaput in 2023, as Bruce was impressed with Chicagoans singing “Hungry Heart” and starting a new tradition 🇺🇸🌊💨🐻⚾️🧢🍕🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷🥁🎹 📻 🗣️😎)
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thursday, November 20, 1980: Rosemont, IL, Rosemont Horizon, The Rosemont Reception bootleg(Despite the terrible acoustics in the barn on Interstate 90 near O’Hare Airport with its high ceilings, Bruce’s concert was recorded without his knowledge and consent 🇺🇸🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷🌊💿🏟️🗣️🚨)
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Thursday, November 20, 1980: Rosemont, IL, Rosemont Horizon, setlist(Despite the cliffhanger of “Who shot J.R.?” being resolved on the following night via the CBS programme of “Dallas,” Bruce didn’t perform “Point Blank” in the second set for Chicagoans 🇺🇸⛽️💰🤠🔫👱🏻‍♀️📺🚨🎹🎤🧑🏻‍🦱)
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Thursday, November 20, 1980: Rosemont, IL, Rosemont Horizon, photo(A blonde Chicagoan demonstrated more enthusiasm dancing with Bruce in Illinois than the brunette Courteney Cox could muster four years later when dancing with Bruce in Minnesota 🇺🇸🌊💨🐻⚾️🧢🍕👩🏼🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷🎥👩🏻🕺📺 😳)
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Thursday, November 20, 1980: Rosemont, IL, Rosemont Horizon, setlist(The defunct radio station of WMET sponsored the concert that deserved “Chicago’s finest rock” of WXRT instead, as Bruce performed 29 songs for Chicagoans 🇺🇸🌊💨🐻⚾️🧢🍕🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷📻😎)
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Thursday, November 20, 1980: Rosemont, IL, Rosemont Horizon, Chicago Tribune review(A month after performing two sold-out concerts at the Uptown Theater, Bruce performed at the new arena with its atrocious acoustics that couldn’t thwart the first sing-along of “Hungry Heart” by the fans 🇺🇸🌊💿📻🎤🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷🏟️🗣️)
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Thursday, November 20, 1980: Chicago, IL, Holiday Inn, photo(Bruce signed autographs for fans in downtown Chicago near Lake Shore Drive before getting in a van onto the Kennedy Expressway of Interstate 90 headed north to the suburb of Rosemont at a new venue for his concert 🇺🇸🌊🐻⚾️🧢🍕✍️🚐🛣️🏟️🌹🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷)
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Monday, November 20, 1978: Champaign, IL, University of Illinois, photo(Bruce took in the applause during a sustained E chord at the end of “Born To Run” enjoyed by the college students as merely his first encore before “Quarter To Three” closed the concert 🇺🇸🍂🏫👨🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓👨🏼‍🎓👩🏼‍🎓🍺🍻🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷👏🏻🕰️🕺)
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Monday, November 20, 1978: Champaign, IL, University of Illinois, photo(Two days after hundreds of Americans died literally from cyanide-laced Flavor Aid in the jungle of Guyana due to a narcissistic liar, Bruce died figuratively at the end of “Jungleland” with his wordless moan 🇬🇾🍷✝️😎🤥☠️🚨🎤🧑🏻‍🦱🎹👨🏾🎷)
November 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Monday, November 20, 1978: Champaign, IL, University of Illinois, photo(Bruce asked the college students if they believed the album title of “You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish” from local band DOA Slothwagon, uh, REO Speedwagon was actually witty and clever or extremely dumb 🧑🏻‍🦱🎸🏫👨🏼‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓👩🏼‍🎓💿🎹🐠🚨)
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Monday, November 20, 1978: Champaign, IL, University of Illinois, photo(Two years after the American “badlands” got worse due to St. Raygun winning a presidential election, Bruce got a kick out of local band DOA Slothwagon, uh, REO Speedwagon being more commercially viable than himself 👔🇺🇸🏆🚨🧑🏻‍🦱🎸👨🏾🎷💿📻🤣)
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM