Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance at Asbury Park’s Convention Hall to introduce his longtime friend and guitarist Steven Van Zandt into the hall. Springsteen himself was admitted a decade earlier.
The two joined forces onstage and played “I Don’t Want To Go Home,” trading vocals and eventually welcoming the entire class of inductees – and many of their family members – onstage to close the show. “We did the impossible: We made New Jersey hip,” said Van Zandt, who is from Middletown.
