Exclusive Video From Springsteen Concert DVD

Next Tuesday, Bruce Springsteen's London Calling:  Live in Hyde Park — a complete concert taped in England last June — arrives on DVD and Blu-ray (click above for an exclusive clip of "Racing in the Street"). The concert went down in front of a festival crowd and Gaslight Anthem singer Brian Fallon joined the band for "No Surrender," but the film's editor says what makes the show truly remarkable is its incredible lighting.

"It's a combination of the stage lighting and the daylight," Thom Zimmy tells Rolling Stone. "When you get to 'Jungleland' and 'American Land' you get a sense of the day passing into night."

Like most shows on the group's 2009 tour, the show features Springsteen and the E Street Band playing unrehearsed fan requests. "You literally see him changing the set list," says Zimmy. "If you look back with Bruce's DVDs, they all have a very specific look. Bruce is really involved in the lighting and the look of the DVD, from Live in New York to Live in Dublin. They're all really different. What I like about this one is that it captures Bruce directing the band and the massive scale of the audience."

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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