“Finally.” It’s the word Darlene Love says with a laugh when you ask her to describe what it’s like being in the studio with Steven Van Zandt, 30 years after the two swore they’d make an album together.
With Van Zandt enlisting songwriting help from his famous friends like Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil—who wrote The Crystals’ 1962 hit “He’s Sure The Boy I Love,” which featured an uncredited Love on lead vocals—she told Radio.com that people are “going to be very surprised” by the album, due out later this year.
At 76 years old, Love isn’t the least bit concerned about getting lost in the shuffle of the current crop of pop divas, making it clear there’s more than enough fansto go around.
“It doesn’t matter if someone has 2 million followers on their tweets. Hey, there’s billions of people in the world!” Love says. “Just because they have 2 million of them doesn’t mean the rest of them ain’t listening.”
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By Shannon Carlin
