Bruce Springsteen’s Unused ‘Harry Potter’ Song Finally Finds a Home in New Movie

“I’ll Stand by You Always,” which was originally recorded and offered to the “Potter” filmmakers in 2001, will get its first official release in the upcoming Gurinder Chadha movie “Blinded by the Light”

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Almost 20 years after he wrote the song for a “Harry Potter” movie, Bruce Springsteen has finally found a home for his unreleased ballad “I’ll Stand by You Always.” The song has been added to the end credits of “Blinded by the Light,” an upcoming, Springsteen-heavy New Line/Warner Bros. film from “Bend It Like Beckham” director Gurinder Chadha.

The song did not appear in “Blinded by the Light” when the film screened at Sundance in January, where its $15 million deal with New Line was the festival’s biggest. But it was added before this week’s screenings in Los Angeles and at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, and will now follow the song “Born to Run” during the end credits.

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