Bruce Springsteen Wrote A ‘Harry Potter’ Song That Never Got Used
By Jack Giroux/Oct. 21, 2016 3:10 pm EST
Below, learn more about the scrapped Bruce Springsteen Harry Potter song.
Springsteen couldn’t help but laugh while recounting the experience. As the story goes, he wrote the song after reading J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books to his youngest son, Sam. Between 1998 to 2000 is when he reportedly penned the song, which he then made available to director Christopher Columbus for either Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone or Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. To this day, we still haven’t heard the song, and the lyrics remain unreleased.
It was pretty good [Laughs]. It was a song that I wrote for my eldest son. It was a big ballad that was very uncharacteristic of something I’d sing myself, but it was something that I thought would have fit lovely. At some point, I’d like to get it into a children’s movie of some sort because it was a pretty lovely song.
Springsteen was asked about the ballad while promoting his new autobiography, Born to Run. If you’re a fan of the Boss, you’ve more than likely purchased it or read it already, but if you haven’t yet, you should. I’m only halfway through the book, but so far, it has the same sense of warmth, wisdom, humor, heartache, and joy you often get from Springsteen’s music.
