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Article: Springsteen's dawn concert an attempt to revive Asbury Park.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 30, 2002
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ASBURY PARK, N.J. _ Can Bruce Springsteen save Asbury Park?
And if he wanted to lead the charge, did he have to do it so early in the morning?
Those questions were on the minds of the faithful who rose before sunrise Tuesday (or stayed up all Monday night) to celebrate the arrival of Springsteen's "The Rising" and NBC's "Today" show, which broadcast on location from 7 to 10 a.m. EDT in the down-on-its-luck shore town that gave the singer his start.
Outside Asbury Park Convention Hall, while Springsteen and the E Street Band prepared to play before a live audience and television cameras, a crowd of more than 10,000 gathered on the beach to ogle ...