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WHO SANG BLINDED BY THE LIGHT MOVIE
The film is part coming-of-age story and part movie musical, featuring enough Springsteen music to satisfy the most diehard devotees. This, too, was exciting, bringing me close to a source of much musical joy.Īs a decades-long Bruce Springsteen fan, I rushed out to see “Blinded by the Light,” the delightful new movie directed by Gurinder Chadha (“Bend It Like Beckham”) about the impact of the artist’s music on a Pakistani-born British teen named Javed. Through an act of sheer chutzpah, I also once wrangled an interview with Clemons for a rather shady magazine, despite my having zero credentials writing about the music scene. I also became a huge fan of “the Big Man,” saxophone player Clarence Clemons, who was a member of the E Street Band from its inception in 1972 until his passing in 2011. In the decades since I attended that incredible concert, I’ve remained a big fan of that young artist who put Asbury Park, New Jersey on the map. Who among us didn’t have a “hungry heart” when we were young? In this way, Springsteen’s songs and their universal appeal spoke to me as well. I also longed to find the comfort of lasting love. I also had dreams of my own and was resolutely determined to achieve them.
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Yet the songs were also shot through with irrepressible youthful energy, eagerness for romance, and a no-holds-barred determination to fulfill one’s dreams wherever they took you, once you escaped the “darkness at the edge of town.” Who among us didn’t have a “hungry heart” when we were young?Īlmost all young people dream of transcending the limitations of their upbringing, and I was no different. Some songs were laced with an undercurrent of anger or anxiety others were about dreams delayed or even deflated. I didn’t know anyone who worked on the highway, blasting through the bedrock, and I really had no ambition to drive a pink Cadillac, or drag race on the streets. I didn’t grow up in an economically struggling town. The themes of a lot of Springsteen songs were in many ways distant from my reality. I’ll never forget the thrill of that evening, and the high that lingered through the following days. Thousands of us danced and sang along with Bruce during “Born to Run,” “Thunder Road,” “The River” and other hits. Springsteen and his incomparable E Street Band played with electrifying abandon. No way would I miss this opportunity to see “the Boss” in concert for the first time. I wrestled my conscience to the ground in about two seconds.
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He was a music producer and in possession of very expensive, enviable seats, the likes of which I would never sit in again. This was clearly not my finest moment, but many readers may offer absolution when I explain that he had tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert. When I was single, I once accepted a date with a man I knew I wasn’t really interested in.