Blinded By The Light to include Bruce Springsteen’s rejected Harry Potter song

The movie soundtrack to ‘Blinded by the Light’ will include previously unreleased Bruce Springsteen songs including the song ‘I’ll Stand By You Always’, offered for a Harry Potter movie but it was rejected.

Springsteen spoke about the rejection in a 2016 interview with the BBC. The song was submitted for ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’. “At some point I’d like to get [“I’ll Stand By You Always”] into a children’s movie of some sort,” Springsteen told the BBC. “It was a pretty lovely song.”

‘Blinded by the Light’ is set in 1987. It is about an Indian teenager living in Britain learning to live life through the worlds of Bruce Springsteen.

The movie will be released on 14 August, 2019.

Blinded By The Light: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Track List
1. Ode To Javed/Javed’s Poem – A.R. Rahman
2. It’s a Sin – Pet Shop Boys
3. The Sun Always Shines On T.V. – a-ha
4. “The Boss Of Us All” (dialogue)
5. Dancing In The Dark – Bruce Springsteen
6. “You Should Be Listening To Our Music” (dialogue)
7. “I Never Knew Music Could Be Like This” (dialogue)
8. *The River– Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY – September 21, 1979) (previously unavailable on an album)
9. “Number One Paki Film” (dialogue)
10. Badlands – Bruce Springsteen
11. Cover Me – Bruce Springsteen
12. Thunder Road– Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (Live at The Roxy Theater, West Hollywood, CA – October 18, 1975)
13. Get Outta My Way Fascist Pigs – Amer Chadha-Patel
14. “Do It For Me” (dialogue)
15. Prove It All Night – Bruce Springsteen
16. Hungry Heart – Bruce Springsteen
17. “You, Me…and Bruce” (dialogue)
18. Because The Night – Bruce Springsteen
19. Maar Chadapa – Heera
20. *The Promised Land – Bruce Springsteen (Live on The National Mall, Washington, D.C. – November 11, 2014)
21. Blinded By The Light – Bruce Springsteen
22. Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
23. *I’ll Stand By You – Bruce Springsteen (previously unreleased studio recording)
24. *For You My Love – A.R. Rahman (new original song for film)