Died On This Date (April 17, 2008) Danny Federici / Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
themusicsover Danny Federici
January 23, 1950 – April 17, 2008
Danny Federici was one of the foundations of Bruce Springsteen’s legendary E Street Band. Backing Springsteen, his organ fills can be heard in many of popular music’s greatest songs. He has been by Springsteen’s side both live and on record since the late ’60s. But it was Federici who actually gave Springsteen one of his earliest jobs when he asked him to join his band, Child. Springsteen later, of course, asked Federici to join his own band which would eventually become the E Street Band. Federici made a handful of his own albums during the E Street Band hiatus of the ’90s. In November of 2007, it was announced that Federici would be taking a medical leave from to band to pursue treatment for melanoma. He passed away because of the cancer on April 17, 2008. Longtime E Street Band mate Clarence Clemons died on June 18, 2011 following a stroke.
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