The 67-year-old singer's song was left out of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' soundtrack list since it was considered 'too sweet.'
- Feb 11, 2017
AceShowbiz - Bruce Springsteen has been known as an avid "Harry Potter" fan. He even enjoyed reading the stories to his son, Sam, which led him to write a song for the series' first film, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". Sadly, his song didn't make the cut into the movie's soundtrack list.
After years of making people curious, Bruce's rejected "Harry Potter" track "I'll Stand By You Always" is finally made available online. On Friday, February 10, an "uber collector" of Bruce's fandom discovered the song on the "Brilliant Disguise" hitmaker's torrent site, Jungleland, and reposted it on SoundCloud.
Bruce once opened up about his rejected "Harry Potter" song while promoting his autobiography, "Born to Run". "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," Bruce recalled. "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."
The 67-year-old singer revealed why his track was deemed unfit for the movie. Bruce said that it was "difficult to imagine" his song would fit the tone of the first installment of the "Harry Potter" movie series. He later waited for the track to be included into the series' next installments, but his song was considered "too sweet at times for any of the sequels."
Bruce reportedly wrote "I'll Stand By You Always" between 1998 and 2000, before recording the song. A couple of years after the song was dropped from "Harry Potter" track list, singer Marc Anthony wanted that song for his sixth album "Mended". But the song also didn't make it into Marc's album.
