Lorde will never forget the first time she performed at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. It came in 2014, one year after she delivered the all-time great debut “Pure Heroine,” and she remembers being welcomed by this “roaring wall of people” as she took the stage.

“I had never seen anything like this,” Lorde says. “It totally imprinted in my mind that day.”

Since that moment — which actually came during her fourth time through the Bay Area on the landmark Pure Heroine Tour — Lorde has wanted to return to play the historic building that she calls “the most beautiful venue in the world.”

And on Sunday night — almost exactly 11 years after making her debut in Berkeley — Lorde finally made it happen.

“When we were booking this tour, I literally had one request: I said, ‘Could we play the Gre

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