Pink Cadillac (song) release "Art or Bust" video - comprising footage from the two De Tour concerts at the University of Minnesota - included "Pink Cadillac" as the opening number. Aretha Franklin is sometimes mis-credited as a singer of "Pink Cadillac" as the imagery occurs in her 1985 comeback hit "Freeway of Love" with the same metaphoric sense as in the Springsteen original, the lyric being: "We're going riding on the freeway of love in my pink Cadillac". "Pink Cadillac" has long been a staple of Melissa Etheridge's live repertoire; at a 2 October 1996 Milwaukee concert by Etheridge, Bruce Springsteen joined her
The Rising (Bruce Springsteen song) picked up and used for that, so you end up here. If someone had told me in 2001 that 'you're going to sing this song at the inaugural concert for the first African-American president,' I'd have said, 'Huh?' But eight years go by, and that's where you find yourself. You're in there, you're swimming in the current of history and your music is doing the same thing." The Rising (Bruce Springsteen song) "The Rising" is the title track on Bruce Springsteen's 12th studio album "The Rising", and was released as a single in 2002. Springsteen wrote the song in reaction