​​​​​​​​​​St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

In 1976 a British jazz/blues band named The Manfred Mann Earth Band came out with the song, “Blinded by the Light.” The words and slang (written by Bruce Springsteen) were so difficult to understand that barely anyone really understood what the song was about, but the tune caught on, and by 1977, it had reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Years later, when Springsteen sought to illuminate the meaning of his lyrics, he said, they described his time as a young, energetic mus