Bruce Springsteen Spooks Halloween Audience with Surprise 'Ghostbusters' Performance

If there’s darkness on the edge of town, who are you gonna call? “Ghostbusters!”

Bruce Springsteen surprised the crowd at Centre Bell in Montreal by opening his Halloween night show with a cover of Ray Parker Jr.’s Ghostbusters title song. It was the first time The Boss, 75, had performed the track.

In a fan video from the show, The E Street Band kicks off the track with the familiar opening keyboard and horns introduction with Springsteen’s backup singers dancing along. By the time Springsteen takes the mic to sing: “If there’s something strange, in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?,” the audience is along for the ride and continues singing along.

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After finishing “Ghostbusters,” Springsteen led the E Street Band back to familiar territory. The rest of the setlist included classics like “Hungry Heart,” “No Surrender,” “Racing in the Streets,” “The Rising,” “Atlantic City” and “The Rising.” Springsteen also performed more recent songs like “Letter to You” and “Nightshift,” a Commodores cover featured on Springsteen’s 2022 album Only the Strong Survive.

Setlist surprises are becoming a rarity for Springsteen lately, and The E Street Band isn’t complaining. In the new Hulu and Disney+ documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the musicians praised Springsteen’s decision to stick to a standard setlist instead of changing things up frequently.

“It’s not a jam session, it’s not stump the band. It’s an experience. It’s a show,” Garry Tallent, who has been playing bass with Springsteen since his debut album in 1973, said. “Bruce has put this set list together meticulously. Start listening a little closer, there’s different emotions being brought out of each song every time you hear it.”

“[The] set list is going to communicate the story you are trying to tell your audience this time around,” Springsteen explained in the documentary, which is now streaming. “And the 25 songs I chose to focus on would complete the narrative for what I wanted to say and it would let the audience know who I am at this point in my work life.”

Springsteen and the E Street Band’s Canadian tour continues through Nov. 22, ending with a show at Rogers Arena in Vancouver. The band will be touring Europe in May, June and July next year.