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"Dancing In the Dark" - Bruce Springsteen.Here are all the classic songs on Blinded By the Light's soundtrack: The song didn't end up being included in the movie, but thanks to Springsteen's collaboration on Blinded By the Light, has finally been released. Related: Sarfraz Manzoor Interview: Blinded By The Lightīlinded By the Light includes classic Springsteen tracks like "Dancing in the Dark" and "Thunder Road," but also includes a previously unreleased song called "I'll Stand By You" that Springsteen recorded for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
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Javed's father (Kulvinder Ghir) has been laid off from his factory job and is unable to find work, leading him to push Javed towards a job that makes money. Salvation comes when Roops (Aaron Phagura), a student at Javed's college, introduces him to the music of Bruce Springsteen, whose lyrics that seem to spell out exactly how Javed is feeling. In the film, Javed Khan (Viveik Kalra) is an aspiring writer who is studying for his A levels and trying to survive amid the economic trouble and racism of the 1980s.
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Blinded By the Light's soundtrack features, as you'd expect, plenty of Springsteen songs along with nostalgic picks from the 1980s, when the movie is set.īlinded By the Light is based on journalist Sarfraz Manzoor's memoirs, Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock N’ Roll, which recount the powerful influence that Springsteen's music had on Manzoor as a teenager.
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"His lyrics and what he stands for is so universal and so timeless that the music that he made in the '70s and '80s can still resonate with people now, you know, 30, 40 years later.In Gurinder Chadha's coming-of-age story Blinded By the Light, the music of Bruce Springsteen provides hope for a British Pakistani teen who feels frustrated by his home life in the London suburb of Luton. "Not that needs it, but I think people need it in a way. the way this film's kind of introduced us to Springsteen - because it's not normal for someone in their 20s in Britain to be listening to Springsteen now, it's very rare that you find someone like that. "And then when I did, it was almost like I felt like everyone of my age, everyone in my friendship group, should automatically like him as well, but they haven't taken it in the context I have. "It took me a while just to actually enjoy his music and understand what it was about his lyrics that resonated so well to people," he says. Phagura says he too has become a big Springsteen fan. :: Listen to our latest Backstage podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker
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Listen to "The Big Hack, Keeping Faith and Tom Cruise" on Spreaker. Everything else is just a bonus, but for me my main goal was for him to see him in me." It was the best compliment I could have got after taking this role. And I literally just spoke to him last night and he said watching me was like deja vu. "Of course, you don't wanna do an impression of him but I kind of felt like I want him to watch and see a version of himself. "I feel like that was the most nerve-racking thing for me, playing not only someone that existed but someone that's actually alive and going to be watching this portrayal of him," he says. So I didn't do an impression of Sarfraz but I took little titbits of him that I wanted to place in this 16-year-old kid from Luton, 1987."īut for Aaron Phagura, who plays best mate Roops - the school friend who introduced Manzoor to Springsteen, and is still his best mate today - that was the biggest pressure. "But it wasn't like I had to play Churchill or something, someone who's really instantly historically recognisable. "It's quite cool… it's his actual life," he says. Image: Aaron Phagura stars as Roops in Blinded By The Light