Steven van zandt biography book
Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir
January 24, 2022
Van Zandt to Springsteen (circa 1999)
“I know you’re trying to be funny,” I said. “But it’s only funny if it’s not true! If it was a line from a Dave Van Ronk song, we’d all have a good laugh about it, right? Look, I’m sure it’s more than a little weird to be rich and famous after almost forty years of being poor and struggling, and I know you’re trying to come to grips with how that new reality fits with your working-class persona, but damn!
“Well,” he says, “in a certain way—an exaggerated way—I’m just being honest about my life.”
“Honest?” I was getting kind of worked up. “About YOUR life? I hate to tell you this, but nobody gives a fuck about YOUR life. Your gift, your job, your genius is telling people about THEIR lives! Helping them understand THEIR mostly fucked-up existence! Letting them know that you understand what they’re going through and that they are not alone.”
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Steven Van Zandt, also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American musician and actor. The first true heartbeat of Unrequited Infatuations is the moment when Stevie Van Zandt trades in his devotion to the Baptist religion for an obsession with Rock and Roll. Underlying all of Van Zandt's various incarnations was a devotion to preserving the centrality of the arts, especially the endangered species of Rock.
“I know you’re trying to be funny,” I said. “But it’s only funny if it’s not true! If it was a line from a Dave Van Ronk song, we’d all have a good laugh about it, right? Look, I’m sure it’s more than a little weird to be rich and famous after almost forty years of being poor and struggling, and I know you’re trying to come to grips with how that new reality fits with your working-class persona, but damn!
“Well,” he says, “in a certain way—an exaggerated way—I’m just being honest about my life.”
“Honest?” I was getting kind of worked up. “About YOUR life? I hate to tell you this, but nobody gives a fuck about YOUR life. Your gift, your job, your genius is telling people about THEIR lives! Helping them understand THEIR mostly fucked-up existence! Letting them know that you understand what they’re going through and that they are not alone.”
I am not a Bruce Springsteen fan, though I enjoy much of
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Unrequited Infatuations by Stevie Van Zandt - Hachette Book Group
| In this autobiography/memoir, Stevie Van Zandt offers insight into his life as a professional consigliere--whether as Bruce Springsteen's good friend and. | |
| “Unrequited Infatuations is a wonderfully original take on a Rock ’n’ Roll autobiography.”― Paul McCartney “In the New Jersey state of mind somewhere between Bruce Springsteen Stadium and The Bon Jovi Arena is a little known street called Little Steven Boulevard with hundreds of endless souvenir shops, gift stores all associated with Little Steven the Consigliere, all top level. | |
| Stevie Van Zandt's first ever memoir, UNREQUITED INFATUATIONS, is now available for preorder from Hachette Books. |
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- As a fan of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the Sopranos, Lilyhammer, the Asbury Jukes, the Disciples of Soul, and Little Steven's Underground Garage, there was little chance I would not enjoy this book.
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- Uncover never-before-told stories in this epic tale of self-discovery by a Rock ’n’ Roll legend, member of the E Street Band, and subject of the acclaimed HBO documentary Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple.
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Unrequited Infatuations - Washington Independent Review of Books
- In the twenty-first century, Van Zandt founded a groundbreaking radio show (Underground Garage), a fiercely independent record label (Wicked Cool), and developed a curriculum to teach students of all ages through the medium of music history.
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- Unrequited Infatuations is a memoir written by Steven Van Zandt, edited by Ben Greenman, and published in 2021 by Hachette Books.