Bruce Springsteen Wrote An Unused Song For Harry Potter?

In news that is as weird as it is surprising, rock god Bruce Springsteen confessed that he had once written a tune intended to rock Hogwarts….but that ultimately went unused by the Harry Potter film producers.

It was a potential pairing as odd as putting chocolate on a Filet Mignon…and yet the possibility intrigues.

In a recent interview on BBC Radio 2 with Simon Mayo the ‘Boss’ said he wrote a song called “I’ll Stand By You Always” that was meant for the movies, but “they didn’t use it.” Bruce said that while it may not be a traditional Springsteen song, he was still proud of the track….and felt it had a magic in its own right.

“It was pretty good,” the rocker said. “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.”

So there you have it folks, the Harry Potter universe almost transected with rock ‘n’ roll royalty, and it’s hard not to envision what that would’ve looked like had a bombastic Springsteen track been allowed to permeate onto the the film series.

And now we’ll always have to wonder what might have been at Hogwarts…