Bruce Springsteen

Super Bowl XLIII halftime show, February 1, 2009, with the E Street Band A bar band at stadium size, playing like it has something to prove. Springsteen treats halftime as a sprint, tearing through crowd-pleasers such as "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Glory Days" with the E Street Band at full volume. It is less polished than the modern spectacles and all the better for it: a rewatch shows a band visibly having the time of its life.