{"id":804062,"date":"2020-02-11T11:53:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=951087"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:53:48","slug":"steven-van-zandt-rereleases-1985-sun-city-protest-lp-by-artists-united-against-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/steven-van-zandt-rereleases-1985-sun-city-protest-lp-by-artists-united-against-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Van Zandt Rereleases 1985 \u2018Sun City\u2019 Protest LP by Artists United Against Apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/steve-van-zandt-sun-city-reissue.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Steven Van Zandt is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela\u2019s release from a South African prison by rereleasing his 1985 multi-artist protest LP <em>Sun City.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The album contains not just his protest anthem \u201cSun City,\u201d but also Peter Gabriel\u2019s \u201cNo More Apartheid\u201d and \u201cSilver and Gold\u201d written by Bono along with Keith Richards and Ron Wood. It hasn\u2019t been available on vinyl since its original release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Van Zandt wrote \u201cSun City\u201d in response to rock acts like Queen, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt and Cher performing at the South African Sun City resort in violation of a cultural boycott of the country. He recruited an amazing lineup of guest artists to sing on the song \u201cWe Are the World\u201d-style, including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Pete Townshend, Hall &amp; Pates, Herbie Hancock, Afrika Bambaataa and several others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Months after the single hit, he released the <em>Sun City<\/em> LP under the banner Artists United Against Apartheid. It also features the tracks \u201cLet Me See Your I.D\u201d (featuring Miles Davis, Peter Wolf, Gil Scott-Heron and Peter Garrett) and \u201cThe Struggle Continues\u201d (featuring Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Stanley Jordan.)<\/p>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4BIvf-ZlJNc?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The project was one of the first things that Van Zandt did after quitting the E Street Band. It was a decision that cost the guitarist quite a bit of money since he missed out on the lucrative Born in The U.S.A. tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFinancially, it was apocalyptic,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/steven-van-zandt-interview-marriage-bruce-springsteen-sopranos-933523\/\">Van Zandt told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> earlier this year. \u201cThat said, we did take years off the life of the South African government. But is that worth losing all of my friends, all of my power base, all my juice, all my celebrity capital, to save a few lives? And you\u2019ve got to say, \u2018Yeah, sure. It was.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The re-release of <em>Sun City<\/em> is part of Van Zandt\u2019s broader new boxset <em>RockNRoll Rebel \u2013 The Early Work<\/em>. It also contains remastered versions of <em>Men Without Women<\/em> (1982), <em>Voice of America<\/em> (1983), <em>Freedom \u2013 No Compromise<\/em> (1987), <em>Revolution<\/em> (1989) and <em>Born Again Savage<\/em> (1999).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He toured heavily in recent years with a reconstituted version of his band The Disciples of Soul, but he\u2019s not sure if they\u2019ll ever play together again after recent gigs in New York and Boston. \u201cI hope I keep this band together forever,\u201d he told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m not sure how I\u2019m going to do that because if we go out with Bruce, that could be two years and by then, who knows? The different guys in the band may find different bands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A future Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band tour has to be confirmed, but Springsteen has indicated many times in the past few months that they are cutting an album and plan on hitting the road when it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/steven-van-zandt-sun-city-reissue-951087\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Van Zandt is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela\u2019s release from a South African prison by rereleasing his 1985 multi-artist protest LP Sun City. The album contains not just his protest anthem \u201cSun City,\u201d but also Peter Gabriel\u2019s \u201cNo More Apartheid\u201d and \u201cSilver and Gold\u201d written by Bono along with Keith Richards and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 02:14:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}