4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) the Northeastern United States, including the coast of New Jersey, where Asbury Park is located. The irony of Asbury Park being battered by the storm was not lost amongst Springsteen's fans. On December 12, 2012, Springsteen participated in , but did not perform "Sandy" at the event. One of the song's most famous lines is: The "Madam Marie" mentioned in the song was a real-life fortune teller on the Asbury Park boardwalk named Marie Castello, who died June 27, 2008, aged 93. Springsteen offered memories and condolences of her on his website, saying: "Back in the day when I was
Martin Asbury Martin Asbury Martin Asbury is a British comic and storyboard artist, best known for drawing the "Garth" strip in the "Daily Mirror" from 1976 to 1997, and for his colour TV adaptations in "Look-in". Asbury was educated at Merchant Taylors School and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, and started work in strip cartoons, including assisting Dan Barry on "Flash Gordon" in Austria. After a period designing greetings cards, he got work at D. C. Thomson, drawing "Secret of the Sheridan Sisters" for "Bunty" and "Soldiers of the Jet Age" and "The Crimson Claw" for "Hotspur", before moving to