Overview
"I'll See You in My Dreams" is a 2020 song by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The song was released as a single in March 2021. The song was dedicated to Michael Gudinski with the music video released on March 3, the day after Gudinski died. The song is the closing track on the 2020 album Letter to You, and along with the opening track "One Minute You're Here", it is one of the two songs about mortality and death that bookend the album.
Performances
The song was first performed in a solo-acoustic arrangement on November 18, 2020, at Springsteen's Stone Hill Farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey for a virtual broadcast of the annual Stand Up for Heroes event, along with another song from the same album, "House of a Thousand Guitars" and the 2007 song "Long Walk Home" Later, it was one of the two songs from the album, the other one being "Ghosts", performed by Springsteen and the E Street Band on the December 12, 2020 episode of Saturday Night Live.
On June 26, 2021, the song was added to the Springsteen on Broadway setlist, replacing "Born to Run" as the closing track, once again performed by Springsteen acoustically on guitar.
On September 11, 2021, Springsteen performed the acoustic version of "I'll See You in My Dreams" at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks, during the 9/11 20th Anniversary Memorial Ceremony.
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