Van Zandt: rock-and-roll history is U.S. history
Steven Van Zandt says that in developing a curriculum to teach a new generation the history of rock and roll, he tried to put himself in the place of the students who would be learning from it.
“Make it fun. Look at kids going to school ... and taking that energy from the music, you know, history, and taking that energy into their other classes,” Van Zandt said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's “This Week.”
Van Zandt, guitarist for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band and a former cast member of “The Sopranos,” is the founder of the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation. He said he's never really repaid what music has done for him, but the new course is a start.
“The history of rock and roll is a history of, certainly, 20th-century America, from there on, anyway. All the cultural impact that it had with civil rights and women's rights and all that other stuff. Well, this is what's going to last. This is what's going to, you know, be here long after we're gone,” he said.
Taylor performs after striking writers stop
Elizabeth Taylor returned to the stage Saturday night, after persuading striking TV and film writers to briefly put down their picket signs.
The Writers Guild of America agreed not to picket the Paramount Pictures lot when actress and AIDS activist Taylor gave a benefit performance of A.R. Gurney's play “Love Letters” with James Earl Jones.
The guild lowered the picket line because “this worthy event is happening solely through the efforts and underwriting of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who is not only a longtime member of the Screen Actors Guild, but an outspoken supporter of the Writers Guild,” Patric Verrone, president of the western chapter of the guild, said in a statement.
Taylor, 75, said she would not cross picket lines Dec. 1, which was World AIDS Day. She said she asked the writers union for a “one night dispensation” so she and her guests could enter the studio with a clear conscience.
Ozzy's garage sale brings in $800,000 for charity
Heavy metal fans aren't usually seen making bids at high-end auctions, but they turned out in numbers to snatch up a coat with embroidered bats, sneakers with skulls on them and other items put up for sale by Ozzy Osbourne.
“We had Ozzy fans bidding against these sophisticated fine art buyers, which you don't see every day,” said Darren Julien, whose company, Julien's Auctions, ran the charity sale Friday and Saturday. “For the most part the metalheads were outbidding the art crowd.”
Bidders came from as far as Germany to try and buy belongings from the Beverly Hills mansion formerly owned by the rocker and former star of “The Osbournes” reality show.
Items featured on Osbourne's hit MTV show were the most popular, Julien said.
- From wire reports
“Make it fun. Look at kids going to school ... and taking that energy from the music, you know, history, and taking that energy into their other classes,” Van Zandt said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's “This Week.”
Van Zandt, guitarist for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band and a former cast member of “The Sopranos,” is the founder of the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation. He said he's never really repaid what music has done for him, but the new course is a start.
“The history of rock and roll is a history of, certainly, 20th-century America, from there on, anyway. All the cultural impact that it had with civil rights and women's rights and all that other stuff. Well, this is what's going to last. This is what's going to, you know, be here long after we're gone,” he said.
Taylor performs after striking writers stop
Elizabeth Taylor returned to the stage Saturday night, after persuading striking TV and film writers to briefly put down their picket signs.
The Writers Guild of America agreed not to picket the Paramount Pictures lot when actress and AIDS activist Taylor gave a benefit performance of A.R. Gurney's play “Love Letters” with James Earl Jones.
The guild lowered the picket line because “this worthy event is happening solely through the efforts and underwriting of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who is not only a longtime member of the Screen Actors Guild, but an outspoken supporter of the Writers Guild,” Patric Verrone, president of the western chapter of the guild, said in a statement.
Taylor, 75, said she would not cross picket lines Dec. 1, which was World AIDS Day. She said she asked the writers union for a “one night dispensation” so she and her guests could enter the studio with a clear conscience.
Ozzy's garage sale brings in $800,000 for charity
Heavy metal fans aren't usually seen making bids at high-end auctions, but they turned out in numbers to snatch up a coat with embroidered bats, sneakers with skulls on them and other items put up for sale by Ozzy Osbourne.
“We had Ozzy fans bidding against these sophisticated fine art buyers, which you don't see every day,” said Darren Julien, whose company, Julien's Auctions, ran the charity sale Friday and Saturday. “For the most part the metalheads were outbidding the art crowd.”
Bidders came from as far as Germany to try and buy belongings from the Beverly Hills mansion formerly owned by the rocker and former star of “The Osbournes” reality show.
Items featured on Osbourne's hit MTV show were the most popular, Julien said.
- From wire reports
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