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Article: In a 2008 Esquire interview, Steven Van Zandt remembered how as a kid running into band rehearsal one day in 1968 he said, "You're not gonna believe this, but Rod Stewart is white! They said, Get outta here. They didn't believe me. There was just not that many places you could see pictures of people. There wasn't MTV and we never heard any white person sing like that. We knew he was black.".
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- Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2009
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In a 2008 Esquire interview, Steven Van Zandt remembered how as a kid running into band rehearsal one day in 1968 he said, "You're not gonna believe this, but Rod Stewart is white! They said, Get outta here. They didn't believe me. There was just not that many places you could see pictures of people. There wasn't MTV and we never heard any white person sing like that. We knew he was black."
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