“Wrecking Ball” by Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen wrote "Wrecking Ball" in 2009 as a send-off for Giants Stadium, the New Jersey venue he and the E Street Band had played again and again since the 1980s, and it debuted at the band's last five shows there that October, the final concerts the place ever hosted before it came down. A live version came out as a single that year; the studio take gave its name to Wrecking Ball, his 17th album of new studio recordings, in 2012.

Springsteen produced it with Ron Aniello and plays guitar, banjo, percussion and drum machine, with Max Weinberg on drums, Clarence Clemons on saxophone, Charles Giordano on piano and Hammond organ, Curt Ramm on trumpet and cornet, and strings from the New York Chamber Consort. Rolling Stone later placed it 43rd among his 100 best songs.

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