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Bruce covered the song once as a snippet:
during BACKSTREETS
1978-08-12 Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, ME
The song is culled from attendee recollections of the show, and a review in the Bangor Daily News from August 14, 1978. The attendee also notes that during a great version of "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)", Bruce was acting up running around before running to the microphone and announcing "someone stop me… before I hurt myself" and collapsing to the stage. Clarence rushes over to play sax over him and a few girls rush the stage and huddle around him until he revives and they are whisked away and he continues. "Growin' Up" features a mid-song story with him being chased by armed forces and "Backstreets" features Bruce referencing the singer Steve Lawrence and singing a Lawrence song "Pretty Blue Eyes" before going back to "…hiding on the backstreets".
Photo by Lawrence Kirsch