Springsteen Remembers Madam Marie
Date: Saturday, July 05 @ 06:31:42 CDT
Topic: Spettacolo
It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that Bruce Springsteen fans are in mourning. Boardwalk fixture and Springsteen song legend Madam Marie, the seaside clairvoyant immortalized in "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)," died last Friday at age 93,...
![]() ASBURY PARK, N.J. - Fortune teller Madam Marie, a figure of rock 'n' roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen, has died. She was in her mid-90s.Sally Castello tells the Asbury Park Press that her great-grandmother, Marie Castello, died June 27.The psychic reader and adviser began telling fortunes on the Asbury Park Boardwalk in New Jersey in the 1930s.Madam Marie became famous in 1973 when Springsteen paid homage to her in the song "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)."The lyric "Did you hear, the cops finally busted Madam Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do" cemented her fame. Source: Boston Globe
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