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"A few people noticed and a lovely man from Japan said that when Bruce was playing The Promised Land, Holly should go up on his shoulders."However, Holly's encounter with the New Jersey singer almost didn't happen as security staff told Laura to take Holly off the man's shoulders and they followed the order.

Laura said: "Bruce started to approach the area where we were standing and he caught her eye so we put her back up on the man's shoulders and they played together."It was just amazing. I've been a mega fan since Covid when I watched all the concerts during lockdown while Holly has become a fan in the past year."Bruce Springsteen has sold more than 71 million albums in the US and over 140 million worldwide and along with his E Street band he has frequently appeared in lists ranking the best live acts of all time.

He is renowned for pulling people out of the audience to perform or dance with him on stage.He famously got young actress Courtney Cox (who played Monica in Friends) dancing on stage during a concert in the 1980s which was featured in his video for Dancing in the Dark.

Although he had been told who to choose, Springsteen assumed she was just a fan, however it later emerged that she had been chosen by the video director from a casting call.

After that, Springsteen got someone from the audience to dance with him to the same song throughout his Born in the USA tour of 1984-85."We need the activists," he said. "We need the energy from a variety of different backgrounds - not just age - to really come put our hands together and work toward getting some real elections won."

There are signs some young upstarts are taking heed: Saikat Chakrabarti, the 39-year-old former chief of staff to Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is challenging former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her San Francisco Congressional primary. Jake Rakov, 37, is going after the seat of his former boss, 15-term incumbent Rep Brad Sherman, 70.Voters are craving "new ideas and new energy to get Congress to actually work again,"

At the fish fry, winning elections after last year's disappointment and the challenges of Trump's aggressive second term agenda were the focus of speeches from two Democratic governors, who are also potential 2028 presidential hopefuls.Waltz, the 61-year-old who was his party's vice-presidential nominee last year, may not exactly be a fresh face some in the party are looking for, although he received a warm reception from the South Carolina audience. Maryland's Moore – a 46-year-old military veteran who is only the third black governor in US history – generated the most animated response, as he spoke about the "baton" being in his generation's hands.