"Prove It All Night" stalled at No. 33 on the singles chart, but it's long been a highlight of Springsteen's live shows. He wrote this Darkness on the Edge of Town track after a conversation with a ...

"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?" Some of the most affecting songs from the first decade of Springsteen's catalog address the emotional distance the songwriter felt ...

The day after my father died a little over a year ago I walked around New York City, aimlessly. I didn’t know where I was going, or doing, or what I was even supposed to do, really. The only thing ...

The soundtrack features a dozen tracks by The Boss, including the titular song and classics like "Born to Run" and "Hungry Heart." But there are also a few ultra rare tracks that even superfans may ...

One of the running themes of “Blinded by the Light” is how Bruce Springsteen was considered irrelevant by British teens in 1987 — but the lengthy standing ovation for the film’s premiere at the ...

When the world turns crazy, you turn to The Boss. So how about powering off the talking heads and constant arguments on cable news, logging out of Twitter and going to see “Blinded by the Light” (★★★½ ...

"Blinded by the Light" had disappeared into obscurity in the years after its release on Bruce Springsteen's Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. Then Manfred Mann's Earth Band garbled a lyric, and their ...

Blinded by the Light should probably have been called Badlands, because it embodies the song’s key lyric: “It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.” The film, which was adapted by screenwriter and ...

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Recent films using music superstars as their foundation have taken different approaches to telling their stories. “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a traditional biopic of Freddie Mercury and Queen, while ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As you can hear, “I’ll Stand By You” is only loosely inspired by Harry Potter and contains no ...