Music
Friday, 18 April 2008
E Street band member dies at 58
Bruce Spingsteen's keyboard player and E Street band member Danny Federici has died, aged 58.
Federici, a founding member of Springsteen's backing group, passed away at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre yesterday afternoon.
He last performed with Springsteen during a show at Indianapolis on 20 March and had been ill since late last year. Federici, who grew up in Flemington, New Jersey, met the singer in the '60s.
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Paying tribute to his bandmate, Springsteen said: "Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much...we grew up together."
Springsteen has postponed two shows at Fort Laurdale and Orlando that were due to take place this weekend.
