Name: Unrequited Infatuations
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Author: Stevie Van Zandt
ISBN: 9781474622158

Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir

Stevie Van Zandt

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 sep 2022

Observăm în paginile acestui volum, construite pe baza unor memorii extrem de sincere și a unei cariere ce pare să cuprindă zece vieți într-una singură, momentul precis al unei convertiri neașteptate. Totul începe într-un dormitor din suburbiile statului New Jersey, unde un tânăr Stevie Van Zandt decide să schimbe rigoarea religiei baptiste pe spiritul rebel al trupelor The Beatles și The Rolling Stones. Această scânteie inițială declanșează o odisee care ne poartă de pe cele mai mari scene ale lumii până în culisele puterii politice. Descoperim aici un personaj polivalent: de la „Miami Steve”, chitaristul de bază din E Street Band, până la „Little Steven”, activistul care a zguduit sistemul apartheid din Africa de Sud prin proiectul „Sun City”.

Structura narativă a cărții Unrequited Infatuations reflectă dinamismul autorului, pendulând între turnee epice și platourile de filmare ale serialului The Sopranos. Este fascinant cum interpretarea personajului Silvio Dante a ajuns să oglindească rolul său real de sfătuitor loial pentru Bruce Springsteen. Cine a apreciat portretul introspectiv și onest din Born to Run va găsi aici aceeași profunzime biografică, aplicată însă unui context mult mai eclectic, ce îmbină muzica cu diplomația culturală și actoria de prestigiu. Tonul este curajos, uneori autoironic, dar mereu ghidat de o credință neclintită în puterea artei de a schimba societatea. Stilul lui Van Zandt nu este cel al unui simplu observator, ci al unui arhitect cultural care, prin Underground Garage sau programele educaționale inovatoare, luptă activ pentru conservarea spiritului rock-ului într-o eră digitală.

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'A wonderfully original take on a Rock and Roll autobiography' Paul McCartney

'An inimitable Rock 'n' Roll life told as boldly as it was lived' Bruce Springsteen

What story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of the country's largest stages, and then ranges across the globe, demonstrating over and over again how Rock and Roll has the power to change the world for the better? This story.

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. Groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones created new ideas of community, creative risk, and principled rebellion. They changed him forever. While still a teenager, he met Bruce Springsteen, a like-minded outcast/true believer who became one of his most important friends and bandmates. As Miami Steve, Van Zandt anchored the E Street Band as they conquered the Rock and Roll world.

And then, in the early '80s, Van Zandt stepped away from E Street to embark on his own odyssey. He refashioned himself as Little Steven, a political songwriter and performer, fell in love with Maureen Santoro who greatly expanded his artistic palette, and visited the world's hot spots as an artist/journalist to not just better understand them, but to help change them. Most famously, he masterminded the recording of "Sun City," an anti-apartheid anthem that sped the demise of South Africa's institutionalized racism and helped get Nelson Mandela out of prison.

By the '90s, Van Zandt had lived at least two lives-one as a mainstream rocker, one as a hardcore activist. It was time for a third. David Chase invited Van Zandt to be a part of his new television show, the Sopranos-as Silvio Dante, he was the unconditionally loyal consiglieri who sat at the right hand of Tony Soprano (a relationship that oddly mirrored his real-life relationship with Bruce Springsteen).

Underlying all of Van Zandt's various incarnations was a devotion to preserving the centrality of the arts, especially the endangered species of Rock. 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. He also rejoined the E Street Band for what has now been a twenty-year victory lap.

UNREQUITED INFATUATIONS chronicles the twists and turns of Stevie Van Zandt's always surprising life. It is more than just the testimony of a globe-trotting nomad, more than the story of a groundbreaking activist, more than the odyssey of a spiritual seeker, and more than a master class in rock and roll (not to mention a dozen other crafts). It's the best book of its kind because it's the only book of its kind.

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Unrequited Infatuations is a wonderfully original take on a Rock and Roll autobiography
An inimitable Rock 'n' Roll life told as boldly as it was lived. From the stages of the biggest stadiums in the world to the politically roiling provinces of South Africa, my good friend pursued his Rock 'n' Roll vision with a commitment few have displayed. A must read for E Street Band fans and Rock fans the world over. In this book Little Steven LETS IT ROCK!
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 stuff, the gangster memorabilia, Little Steven wallets and handbags, bandanas and head scarfs, Little Steven glassware and coffee mugs, Little Steven flags, key chains, stickers and patches, pens and guitar picks, cardboard stand-up cut outs of Little Steven, jigsaw puzzles and buttons. You can spend a fortune on the street, listen to every song he ever played on and watch every television show that he's made, visit the underground garage and also enroll in the Little Stevie's underground college. It's all there, a lot of copies of this book as well. And just like one of Stevie's favorite songs, this book keeps you hanging on and checks all the boxes (check out the one on page 145 - it's hilarious and there's hundreds of others).
This indeed is a cautionary tale filled with outrageous humor, worldly wisdom and an uncanny sense of daring. No doubt about it, Stevie proves it time and time again he's the man to know.

What a wonderful, witty, incisive, moving, authentic, and beautifully written memoir. Stevie Van Zandt's Unrequited Infatuations is a heartfelt and soulful tour though Rock 'n' Roll history, politics, and pop culture from the vantage point of a rare talent and singular American life. I loved every page
A glorious trip into the mind of a true Rock and roll Renaissance Man. Stevie's autobiography digs beneath the surface of his music, evolving into something extraordinarily rich and complex. It's part Rock 'n' Roll history lesson, part political thriller, part revelatory dive into the brotherhood of a band. And so much more. What's most impressive is Stevie's self-deprecating honesty. He has the courage to write about his failures, alongside tales of his enormous success. The stories are also wildly entertaining, hilarious and emotionally devastating. One of the best Rock 'n' Roll books ever written. It belongs on a shelf between Bob Dylan's Chronicles and Gerri Hershey's Nowhere To Run. A masterpiece
Steven and I grew up in the same town, two miles apart - unless you count the fact that creatively, he was on another planet. Beneath the bandana is the beautiful mind of a polymath: singer, songwriter, actor, activist, arranger, thinker and creator. There is sex, there are drugs, and thank the Lord - there is rock and roll. Names are named. Mistakes are made. Fights are (mostly) forgiven. And lightning strikes more than once. This is the beautifully told story of a great American life, and I dreaded the arrival of the final page
I was expecting a great music book with a bit more depth than most. What I got was the Tao Te Ching of Rock biographies! Only it's Lao Tzu with a fabulous sense of humor! This adventure is metaphysically amazing
Unrequited Infatuations is as musical, soulful, funny, adventurous, inspiring, and real as the man who wrote it, the one and only Stevie Van Zandt
A pleasure for music fans and one of the best entertainment memoirs in recent years
5* Unrequited Infatuations packs in some beautifully written set-pieces, but it is also funny, deeply ruminative and frank . . . By the end you feel you've perused ten fascinating lives, not one

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