How Bruce Springsteen Was Inspired By Boardwalk Fortune Teller Madame Marie
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“Did you hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin’ fortunes better than they do?”—Bruce Springsteen, 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).
It was with the above lyric in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 1973 hit, colloquially nicknamed “Sandy,” that Marie Castello became forever immortalized in the rock and roll zeitgeist. Castello is best known as psychic medium Madame Marie, the proprietor of what came to be known among Jersey Shore locals as the Temple of Knowledge for eight decades on the Asbury Park boardwalk.