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Bruce Springsteen all smiles after onstage wipeout: ‘BOSS move’

'It's hard getting old ... Been there, done that'

Bruce Springsteen performs at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., Friday, April 14, 2023.
Bruce Springsteen performs at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., Friday, April 14, 2023. Photo by Michael Loccisano /Getty Images

Bruce Springsteen might have been born to run … but he may want to take things a little slower now and then.

At a show in Amsterdam over the weekend, the ageless rocker was filmed taking a tumble as he and the E Street Band launched into their 2020 hit Ghosts.

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But Springsteen, 73, was all smiles, quickly springing back up with a grin as his bandmates rushed to his aid. “Good night everybody!” he joked, before launching into another song.

On social media, fans were quick to joke about the tumble. “That was not a very BOSS move,” one person quipped on Twitter, while another added, “He’s going down, down, down, down … but he got up and is OK.”

That was not a very BOSS move.

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“It’s hard getting old,” one sympathizer wrote. “Been there, done that.”

A fourth observed how Springsteen was unfazed by the stumble, writing: “He just laughed it off and delivered a fantastic gig to us all.”

But on TikTok, some conservative commentators used the misstep to take a swipe at Springsteen’s support of U.S. President Joe Biden, who himself has been caught on video tripping on the stairs of Air Force One.

“Awesome Joe Biden imitation,” one person jabbed along with a series of laughing emojis, with a second declaring, “Bruce does a Biden.”

“That’s funny,” another wisecracker added. “He likes Joe Biden so much that he is starting to do impersonations of him onstage.”

Springsteen’s current world tour is seeing the rocker play to European crowds until the end of July. He returns to North America in August and he’ll play eight dates across Canada — including two nights at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena — this November.

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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