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Inside Steven Van Zandt’s “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”

The soundtrack to David Chase’s Not Fade Away features the fictional band portrayed in the film, The Twylight Zones, covering some early rock classics including Bo Diddley’s “Bo Diddley,” Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and the standard “Time Is On My Side.” One lesser known song on the soundtrack is “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre,” written by the film’s Music Supervisor, Steven Van Zandt.

2012/12/31

Steven Van Zandt with David Chase/photo credit: Andy Kropa, Getty Images

Steven Van Zandt On ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Not Fade Away’ and ‘Pretty Ballerina’

The David Chase/Steven Van Zandt relationship was a pretty simpatico one through all six seasons of ‘The Sopranos.’ Until the last scene of the final episode; Van Zandt and Chase famously disagreed on the choice to end the series with Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

2012/12/27