Happy Birthday to "A Lot Like Love" star Amanda Peet (1972), R&B singer Mary J. Blige (1971), actor Stanley Tucci (1960), Bangles guitarist Vicki Peterson (1958), country star Robert Earl Keen (1957),

Danny Federici has been forced to take a leave of absence from Bruce Springsteen's backing group the E Street Band, after announcing he is undergoing cancer treatment. The keyboard player's place in the band will be taken by another Springsteen sideman, Charles Giordano, for Sunday's concert in Madrid, Spain and beyond.

NEW YORK (AP) - Bruce Springsteen is back with the E Street Band - and a bit of ''Magic.'' The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer returns Oct. 2 with a new album, titled ''Magic,'' his first collaboration with his longtime New Jersey mates since the Sept. 11-inspired ''The Rising'' in 2002, Springsteen announced through his publicist Thursday.

Bruce Springsteen's longtime assistant Terry MacGovern has died in his sleep. He was 67. MacGovern and Springsteen became firm friends in the early 1970s when the New Jersey Shore promoter hired the rocker's band to perform at a club he was managing.

Happy Birthday to "A Lot Like Love" star Amanda Peet (1972), R&B singer Mary J. Blige (1971), American actor Stanley Tucci (1960), Bangles guitarist Vicki Peterson (1958), country star Robert Earl Keen (1957), studio musician Lee Ritenour (1952), The Judds matriarch Naomi Judd (1946), E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons (1942), and first United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton (1757; d. 1804).