Bruce Springsteen Rocks the ‘Blinded by the Light’ Premiere at Asbury Park

By jsmith on August 9, 2019

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MAY 05: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been digitally converted to black and white.) Bruce Springsteen arrives at Netflix FYSEE Opening Night “Springsteen On Broadway” at Raleigh Studios on May 05, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

No one makes an entrance quite like The Boss.

By Jon Smith

Bruce Springsteen crashed the Blinded by the Light premiere on Wednesday (Aug. 7) night at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park.  The Boss brought some extra fire-power to the red carpet, where he was flanked with his wife, Patti Scialfa and the film’s director Gurinder Chanda and her family.

It was a bit of a shock for the star of the film though, “No one told me that was going to happen,” said star Viveik Kalra commented ahead of the screening, the Asbury Park Press reports. Springsteen reportedly posed for photos, but didn’t take questions. He let his music do all the talking in the theater, where he jammed on a handful of classics including “Sherry Darling.” Blinded by the Light, which tells the story of a British-Pakistani teenager in Thatcher’s England who falls in love with Springsteen’s music, is in theaters on Friday, Aug. 16.