Musical legends being depicted on film is nothing new, but rarely do these big screen events attempt to tell the Bruce Springsteen biopic, or even attempt to match a significant moment to reality. Audiences have learned to accept dramatic license in the telling of biopic tales: we’ve all seen Queen break up before the Live Aid reunion in the film about them; Elton John stole his stage name from John Lennon; Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe sang Billy Squier’s “My Kind of Lover” before the original even recorded it; Amy Winehouse forgot to thank “Blake Incarcerated” when she accepted her Grammy; and Bob Dylan and Joan Baez spent a night together in a Washington D.C. hotel during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In fact, these fabrications and timelines so contrived that they’re become a genre unto the

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