12-03-2025
Rock legend speaks at local lecture series
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — There was a sold-out crowd in Youngstown Tuesday as people came to listen to a rock-n-roll legend and a star of the TV series The Sopranos.
Wearing his trademark bandana, Steven Van Zandt spoke to 1,500 people at Stambaugh Auditorium as part of Youngstown State's Centofanti Symposium.
Van Zandt is one of the original members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band but he began his talk with how he became a political activist.
'And we were taught, of course, that America was doing the right thing worldwide — always. And then reading books, I realized that was not exactly the case. We were occasionally on the wrong side of a few things and that really bothered me,' he said.
After Van Zandt was greeted with a standing ovation he remarked that he has to get to Youngstown more often. He also commented on the beauty of Stambaugh Auditorium.
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