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in dollars) | last_tour = Sessions Band Tour (2006) | this_tour = Magic Tour (2007–2008) | next_tour = Working on a Dream Tour (2009) }} The Magic Tour was Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 2007–2008 concert tour of North America and Western Europe. The tour began October 2, 2007, in Hartford, Connecticut, and concluded August 30, 2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This was his first tour with the E Street Band since 2004's Vote for Change shows and the first prolonged outing with them since the 2002–2003 Rising Tour.〔("Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band Announce First Full Scale Tour Of US & Europe Since 2003" ), Shore Fire Media, August 28, 2007. Accessed August 28, 2007.〕 After the conclusion of the tour's first leg on November 19, 2007, organist Danny Federici took a leave of absence from the tour, to pursue treatment for melanoma.〔("Statement" ), Shore Fire Media, November 21, 2007.〕 He was replaced by Charles Giordano, who had played with Springsteen on the 2006 Sessions Band Tour.〔 Federici made his only return to the stage on March 20, 2008, during the tour's third leg, when he appeared for portions of a show in Indianapolis.〔("March 20, Indianopolis: Return of the Phantom" ), Backstreets.com. Accessed March 21, 2008.〕 He died on April 17, 2008; the next two shows of the tour were postponed.〔 〕 The Magic Tour was one of the biggest tours of the year and won the 2008 Billboard Touring Awards for Top Tour, Top Draw, and Top Manager (for Jon Landau).〔 〕 The Magic Tour had the second-highest gross worldwide for 2008 in Billboard's rankings, with $204.5 million and trailing only Bon Jovi's Lost Highway Tour. In Pollstar's calculus for North America, the Magic Tour had the sixth-highest gross for 2008 at $69.3 million. In any case, in total over its two years, the Magic Tour grossed more than $235 million.〔 ==Itinerary== On August 28, 2007, it was announced on Bruce Springsteen's website that there would be a tour with the E Street Band immediately concurrent with the release of his album ''Magic''.〔("BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND ANNOUNCE FIRST FULL SCALE TOUR OF US & EUROPE SINCE 2003" ), Brucespringsteen.com, August 28, 2007. Accessed August 28, 2007.〕 The two first-announced legs followed the practice established during the 2002–2003 Rising Tour, of quickly visiting cities in North America followed by the same in Western Europe. Possible lengthier engagements, or dates in areas outside the Northeastern United States, where Springsteen's commercial appeal had dimmed, were viewed as additional legs in 2008. In an interview at the time of the tour's announcement, Springsteen made clear that this outing would be a return to expectations after the substantial stylistic departures of the solo, multi-instrumental 2005 Devils & Dust Tour and the big folk 2006 Sessions Band Tour: "Yeah — I'll be playing the ''rock'' music this time."〔("Dates are set; Bruce revs up E Street Machine for Fall" ), Backstreets.com, August 28, 2007. Accessed August 30, 2007.〕 ''Magic'' selections would be likely heavily featured, as they were written for playing in concert.〔 And he shot down fan speculation that (with band members getting on in age and health and drummer Max Weinberg likely heading to Los Angeles when Conan O'Brien would take over ''The Tonight Show'' in 2009〔〔) this might be a farewell tour – "I envision the band carrying on for many, many, many more years. There ain't gonna be any farewell tour.... I'll never do that, man — you're only gonna know that when you don't see me no more"〔 – as did band members the following year.〔 As per past Springsteen practice, the tour proper was preceded by a couple of weeks of the band holding closed rehearsals at Asbury Park Convention Hall – but now with loudspeakers playing local radio stations positioned outside the hall to foil the Springsteen faithful who gathered outside the building to hear a glimpse of the set lists and arrangements to come. This was followed by two rehearsal shows (which doubled as charity benefits) at Convention Hall on September 24 and 25, an early morning appearance on ''The Today Shows concert series on Rockefeller Plaza on September 28,〔("Rocking Rockefeller Plaza: Bruce & the E Street Band live on Today, Sept. 28" ), Backstreets.com, August 30, 2007. Accessed August 30, 2007.〕 and another, small-audience rehearsal at Continental Airlines Arena that night. The first, North American leg began at the Hartford Civic Center on October 2, 2007 and played in arenas through two shows at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston concluding November 19. The second, European leg began on November 25 at the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid and finished at The O2 in London on December 19. As customary on some other Springsteen tours, a two-month winter holiday break was then taken. The third, North American leg again started up at the Hartford Civic Center, on February 28, 2008, playing both previously visited and not markets, in arenas. It concluded on May 2, 2008, at BankAtlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (The leg's conclusion was followed by a special out-of-tour, very-high-priced benefit show May 7 for and at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, where Springsteen's classic 1970s albums ''Darkness on the Edge of Town'' and ''Born to Run'' were played in sequence in their entirety.) Meanwhile, both arenas and stadiums were scheduled for a fourth, European leg to take place in mid-May through mid-July 2008, beginning at the RDS Arena in Dublin. The fifth and final leg of the tour would return to North America for a few stadium and mostly arena or smaller outdoor venue shows, starting at Giants Stadium in New Jersey and visiting such places as Hershey, Pennsylvania, Richmond, Virginia, Nashville, Tennessee, and the like. The tour officially marked its end at the Harley-Davidson 105th Anniversary Celebration in Milwaukee on August 30, 2008,〔 which ''Rolling Stone'' viewed as "a very odd way to end an epic tour."〔 A more extensive final leg, running into the autumn, was "in the works" but scrapped in mid-June 2008. Fans, however, still hoped for something after the Harley show, and were rewarded when plans were announced for Springsteen and the E Street Band to play the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIII, with strong speculation extending to a new album in early 2009 and a tour run before Max Weinberg went to California for ''The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Magic Tour (Bruce Springsteen)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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