4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", often known just as "Sandy", is a 1973 song by Bruce Springsteen, originally appearing as the second song on his album "The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle". It was released as a single from the album in Germany. One of the best-known and most praised of his early efforts, the song remains one of his most popular ballads, and has been described as "the perfect musical study of the Jersey Shore boardwalk culture." Set on, as the title suggests, the Fourth of July in Asbury
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