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Singer-guitarist Tom Morello, serving a blistering homage to Van Zandt's old anti-apartheid song, "Sun City," told the crowd how it helped stoke his own activism as a student at Harvard University. Some bad-boy appeal came when rocker Jesse Malin climbed onto a table of people dining near the stage, singing as he traipsed in sneakers amid stemware on the tablecloth. Besides working with Bruce Springsteen and E Street, and camping it up in mobster roles
-- his most recent on the Netflix show "Lilyhammer" -- Van Zandt works as a record and television producer, radio host, songwriter and arranger, and oversees two satellite channels. The self-educated music historian is also chairman of the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, which is developing curriculum for schools. Not bad for a guy who endured his own school days as a self-described "freak," "misfit" and "outcast." "That was particular to my generation," he said. Now, being a musician is "acceptable. ... But it wasn't so respectable in the 60s." In the long run, though, Van Zandt said music saved his life -- and he wants to return the favor. "It's why I support Little Kids Rock." ___ Online:
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