Musician, writer, producer, actor, activist-- Steve Van Zandt has expressed himself artistically in many ways over the last 50 years and now has his own documentary, “Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple,” on HBO and Max this week. The film includes interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Bono, hailing Van Zandt as a musician and an activist who led a successful campaign against apartheid.
“We were not capable of doing anything else. We were truly freaks, misfits and outcasts,” Van Zandt says. “We were not enamored with the options society was giving us.” He recalled the impact bands like the Beatles and Rolling Stones had on him and other Jersey musicians that encouraged them to keep performing. “Suddenly we had a place. We had a little hope,” he says.
“Steve is a guy that will say rock and roll is the greatest tool for social change that there is,” Teck says. “The first dream doesn’t work out. Whatever. Hang in there a little bit. If you can avoid being an alcoholic or drug addict and feeling too sorry for yourself and committing suicide — all of which I considered — hang in there and maybe destiny … has something in mind that, you couldn’t have anticipated.”
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