Michelle Obama joins Bruce Springsteen, E Street on stage for a 'Barcelona house party'

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's first 2023 tour stop in Europe featured an appearance by a former First Lady.

Michelle Obama, along with actress Kate Capshaw and Patti Scialfa, joined the Boss and the band Friday, April 28 at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain for a spirited rendition of the hit “Glory Days.”

"Are you ready for a Barcelona house party?" Springsteen asked during the song.

Obama, Capshaw and Scialfa shared a microphone at the front of the stage and they all had  tambourines.

“She was having a blast,” said Asbury Park Press staff writer Jean Mikle of the Obama performance on Friday. Mikle was in attendance at the stadium.

Scialfa, Springsteen's wife, is a member of the E Street Band but has not performed with the group on the majority shows on the recently completed  U.S. arena tour.

The band played 28 songs, with a setlist structured much like the U.S. arena shows with one exception. The 1992 solo hit “Human Touch” made its tour debut.

“The crowd was fantastic, singing along to every song,” Mikle said.

The Boss and E Street do it again at the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium on Sunday, April 30.

Springsteen made news in Spain on Friday, April 28 when he and Scialfa were joined for dinner by Barack and Michelle Obama and Capshaw's husband, Steven Spielberg, at the  Amar restaurant in the Palace Hotel in Barcelona.

A restaurant employee posted a group shot.

The Springsteens and Obamas are friends. The Boss and the 44th president of the United States collaborated on the podcast and book, “Renegades: Born in the USA.” The podcast was recorded in Springsteen's Colts Neck home studio in 2021.

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In other news, Springsteen and author Warren Zanes of Montclair will appear Sunday on “CBS Sunday Morning” to talk about the new book “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.” Zanes interviewed Springsteen on the making of his 1981 classic solo album “Nebraska.”

“If I had to pick out one album and say, ‘This is going to represent you 50 years from now,’ I’d pick 'Nebraska',” says Springsteen on the broadcast, which airs 9 a.m.

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Chris Jordan, a Jersey Shore native, covers entertainment and features for the USA TODAY Network New Jersey. Contact him at @chrisfhjordan; cjordan@app.com

This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band joined on stage by Michelle Obama