And we stood for hours next to a man with an image of Springsteen playing the guitar tattooed on his calf and we screamed the lyrics into the night, and when I crawled into bed at 5 a.m. When I was 17, a friend and I drove 10 hours round trip from Massachusetts to New Jersey in one night with the hope that Springsteen would show up on stage at one of his bandmate’s concerts in Asbury Park. A confession: Simply watching the preview to “Blinded by the Light”-the coming-of-age film directed by Gurinder Chadha (“Bend it Like Beckham”) based on a memoir by the British journalist Sarfraz Manzoor about his life and intense love of Bruce Springsteen-made me tear up.
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