Unrequited Infatuations A Memoir

And second, for this conversation we're having, there's a book I just read called Unrequited Infatuations by little Steven Van Zandt, who you know is either Bruce Springsteen's right hand or as James Gunnofini's right hand in the Sopranos.

It's called Unrequited Infatuations, Odyssey of a Rock and Roll Consigliere.

I didn't want to make any Bruce news whatsoever. ... he's an important part of my life. ... I got a lot other, a lot of other stuff that, that is equally important to me.

I just felt I really needed to, um, explore some of those things, um, with the relationship with Bruce that I hadn't ever analyzed before, which turned out to be revelatory, especially in that Born to Run to Darkness on the Edge of Town period when at the time, you know, I was just concerned with making great music.

I had no idea what he was going through. I did not have the sophistication to understand identity or, you know, public identity or, or, uh, any of that, you know, I didn't have the big picture in mind.

And that's why the first thing I did when I finished the book, I sent the, I sent the book to Bruce and to Bob Dylan, because that's where the most intimate conversations were.