*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. After starring roles for Freddie Mercury (“Bohemian Rhapsody”), Elton John (“Rocketman”) and the Beatles (“Yesterday”), it’s ...

Based on the journalist Sarfraz Manzoor’s 2008 memoir Greetings from Bury Park, it charts the formative impact of Bruce Springsteen’s music on his life as a young British Pakistani in 1980s Luton. And ...

LONDON — Being a teenager in the unexciting London suburb of Luton in the 1980s was gruesome enough without the added complication of Pakistani parents who functioned as an in-house anti-fun squad.

From within comes Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark.” As the lyrics literally swirl around his head on the screen, Javed finds that Springsteen’s words and anthemic music speaking to and for ...