Stevie Van Zandt is best known as the guitarist and a founding member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, and for playing Silvio Dante on HBO's The Sopranos and Frank Tagliano on Netflix's Lilyhammer. But as he shares in his new memoir, Unrequited Infatuations, Stevie has done much more with his time on this earth, even if it all didn’t go exactly as he might have hoped.
As a producer, songwriter, and arranger, Stevie has helped countless artists make beautiful music. His songs have been performed by Jackson Browne, Pearl Jam, Nancy Sinatra, and many more. He co-produced Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s The River and Born in the USA, acted in the role of Jerry Vale in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, programs and hosts two radio channels on SiriusXM and—somewhere along the way—found time to fight for causes he believed in, most notably Artists Against Apartheid for which he was honored by the United Nations.
In this conversation, Stevie shares the frustrations and occasional disappointments of putting your whole heart (and, sometimes, all your money) into your artistic vision. Yet he abides in his passionate pursuit of musical beauty. In the words of his friend, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie remains "the planet’s most charismatic, dedicated and visible crusader scrapping to preserve the dirty purity of rock n’ roll.”
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