In 1977, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band released a cover of the Bruce Springsteen song “Blinded by the Light.” The song charted higher than Springsteen’s own version. The Manfred Mann version ...

And his first single with the group couldn’t have been bigger: “Blinded by the Light,” a cover of a deep cut from Bruce Springsteen’s 1973 album, Greetings From Asbury Park N.J. “I could ...