Bruce Springsteen was coming to Pittsburgh before the Benedum Center had its current name.

Back then, it was the Stanley Theater. Springsteen will have a few more fans on hand Tuesday night when he returns to the PPG Paints Arena on the “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour.

The Steel City made its way into Springsteen’s song canon when, in 1998, he released an official version of an unpublished tune called “A Good Man is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh).”

Here are a few moments over the years when “The Boss” came to “The ‘Burgh.”

‘Clampdown!’ and ‘Badlands’ with Tom Morello (2014)

This one is particularly relevant, since the Rage Against the Machine guitarist has been an honorary member of the E Street band for several songs on each stop during the current tour.

After covering Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad” with Rage Against the Machine, Morello first performed the song live with him in April 2008. He later toured extensively as a guest of the band from 2012-2015, and appears on the Springsteen albums “Wrecking Ball” and “High Hopes” — while Springsteen appears on the 2021 Tom Morello album, “The Atlas Underground Fire.”

‘Backstreets’ (2024)

During the band’s last stop in town two years ago, Springsteen dedicated the make-it-before-we-die teenage-friendship tale of “Backstreets” to writer Charles Cross, who founded a Springsteen fan magazine bearing the same title and had recently died.

‘Your Own Worst Enemy’ (2011)

A couple of times over the years, Springsteen has played more intimate shows in the beautiful confines of Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall. At this 2011 show, he opened with this dark ballad about self-alienation.

‘Meet Me in the City’ (2016)

Not only was Bruce playing the Benedum when it was the Stanley, but he was also playing PPG Paints when it was the Consol Energy Center. To open this 2016 show, the band launches into the raucous “Meet Me in the City.”

‘Twist & Shout’ with Joe Grushecky (2024)

If Bruce is in town, there’s a better-than-average chance that hometown rocker Joe Grushecky is going to put in an appearance. Less expected was for them to cover the 1961 Top Notes song made famous by the Isley Brothers and The Beatles, “Twist and Shout” at the Aug. 18, 2024, PPG Paints show.

Dec. 28, 1978 — Stanley Theatre (full show)

The recording quality here is not fantastic, to be sure — but the show certainly is.

This was the second of two nights at the Stanley, as Springsteen was touring behind the “Darkness On the Edge of Town” record and working on songs that would become the double-album “The River.” It’s two-and-a-half hours of high-energy rock’n’roll with no let-up.

It’s hard to imagine that Springsteen is still putting on shows of the same length, still with no set break, nearly five decades later. Tuesday night, he’ll do it again.