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R.I.P., Phantom Dan

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band doing "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)," from the Hammersmith Odeon in London, 1975. Danny Federici, who died on Thursday, is on accordion. There's a memorial show for Federici at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park on Wednesday, and donations are being taken for the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund, with money going to the Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center in Federici's name. The information is at Backstreets.com, or here.

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