Bruce Springsteen Signs Absentee Note for Young Fan During San Francisco Concert

Mar. 15, 2025

Bruce Springsteen performs with The E Street Band at Autodromo Nazionale Monza in July 2023 in Monza, Italy.Photo:Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images

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Bruce Springsteenis all for a fan playing hooky.

According tofan-posted video and photosfrom the event, a young fan caught Springsteen’s attention with a sign that read “Skipping school. Sign my note?”

The “Born to Run” artist happily obliged and kneeled down on the stage to sign the unnamed fan’s note.

After postponing several of his 2023 tour dates due topeptic ulcer disease, Springsteen returned to the stage late last month.

According tothe Associated Press, the rock icon was in good spirits at the Footprint Center in Phoenix as he performed alongside the E Street Band, sans wife wifePatti Scialfa.

During the gig, Springsteen also addressed his illness before starting his final track “I’ll See You In My Dream,” per the AP.

“Phoenix, first I want to apologize if there was any discomfort because we had to move the show last time. . . . I hope we didn’t inconvenience you too much,” he told fans, according to the outlet.

In May 2022, Springsteenannouncedthat he’d be heading out on tour in February 2023 for his and the band’s first international run since 2017, and their first US tour dates since 2016.

However, his road back to the stage didn’t go as smoothly as expected.

Just a month after the tour kicked off, Springsteenpostponed three showsin a week “due to illness,” according to a statement shared on the musician’s Twitter page.

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By August, the singer/songwriter had topostpone two of his Philadelphia showsdue to having “taken ill."

In early September — through a statement shared on the singer’s social media accounts — it was revealed that he was"being treated for symptoms of peptic ulcer disease."

Under the “decision of his medical advisors,” the remainder of Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band’s September showswere postponed.

source: people.com