{"id":491602,"date":"2019-10-24T12:49:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=903362"},"modified":"2019-10-24T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:49:25","slug":"flashback-bruce-springsteen-plays-a-passionate-cuts-like-a-knife-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-bruce-springsteen-plays-a-passionate-cuts-like-a-knife-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bruce Springsteen Plays a Passionate \u2018Cuts Like a Knife\u2019 in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/springsteen-rainforest.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sting-springsteen-james-taylor-rainforest-fund-benefit-lineup-2019-903087\/\">news came out today<\/a> that Sting will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Rainforest Fund with an all-star show at New York\u2019s Beacon Theatre on December 9th featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bruce-springsteen\" data-tag=\"bruce-springsteen\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a>, John Mellencamp, James Taylor, Bob Geldof, Shaggy, Ricky Martin, H.E.R., Eurythmics, and host Robert Downey Jr.<\/p>\n<p>A show with names like that could easily fill Madison Square Garden five times over, but the Rainforest Fund shows are always intimate affairs packed with unexpected cover songs and surprise collaborations. The theme this year is \u201csongs of the 80s and 90s, when music and activism united to change the world and MTV brought it to life with sound and vision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been many incredible Rainforest Fund shows over the years, but perhaps the most memorable one took place May 13th, 2010 at Carnegie Hall. It was an \u201c1980s Nostalgia\u201d show that wrapped up with the unforgettable sight of Elton John, Lady Gaga, Sting, Shirley Bassey, Debbie Harry, and Bruce Springsteen playing \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Believin.&#8217;\u201d Springsteen wasn\u2019t on the bill that night, but he came out near the end to play \u201cDancing in the Dark\u201d and an epic, soulful rendition of \u201cCuts Like a Knife\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bryan-adams\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bryan-adams\" data-tag=\"bryan-adams\">Bryan Adams<\/a>. \u201cSting called me sort of last minute so I\u2019m gonna show some Eighties nostalgia,\u201d he told the audience before playing the Adams songs. \u201cSting, we\u2019re Eighties nostalgia, really.\u201d (Check out video of the performance right here.)<\/p>\n<p>Seven years later, he had the opportunity to play \u201cCuts Like a Knife\u201d with Bryan Adams at the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games in Toronto. The 2010 Rainforest Benefit, however, remains the first and last time he ever played a Journey song. It\u2019s hard to imagine what could possibly top the \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Believin&#8217;\u201d finale of that night, but we vote for Toto\u2019s \u201cAfrica.\u201d It\u2019s time for Bruce and his buddies to bless the rains. When will they ever have a better opportunity?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteen-bryan-adams-cuts-like-a-knife-cover-903362\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news came out today that Sting will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Rainforest Fund with an all-star show at New York\u2019s Beacon Theatre on December 9th featuring Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, James Taylor, Bob Geldof, Shaggy, Ricky Martin, H.E.R., Eurythmics, and host Robert Downey Jr. A show with names like that could easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 03:40:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}