In 1985, Ramone joined Steven Van Zandt's music industry activist group Artists United Against Apartheid, which campaigned against the Sun City resort in South Africa.

However, he had a tough time securing the rights to Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones ' " Dead Flowers ", which plays over the film's closing credits.

In this and similar cases, the court ruled against him, and John Van Zandt's conviction was upheld.

In addition, Springsteen had begun taking many more of the solos during Van Zandt's absence.

The second of Van Zandt's radio channels presented on Sirius is named the Outlaw Country channel.

Van Zandt's music has been covered by such notable and varied musicians as Bob Dylan, Norah Jones, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Cowboy Junkies.

Among Van Zandt's major influences was Texas blues man Lightnin ' Hopkins, whose songs were a constant part of his repertoire.

As a result, his regular producer Jack Clement would take creative license, turning some of Van Zandt's early albums into uneven and wildly over-produced affairs.

The years between 1968 and 1973 would prove to be Van Zandt's most prolific era.

Steve Earle would later say that Van Zandt's primary concerns during this time period were planting morning glories, listening to Paul Harvey's radio show, and watching the sitcom Happy Days.

Several of Van Zandt's compositions were recorded by other artists, such as Emmylou Harris who, with Don Williams, had a No. 3 country hit in 1981 with " If I Needed You ," and Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, the pair taking " Pancho & Lefty " to number one on the country charts in 1983.

Van Zandt's third and final marriage was to Jeanene Munsell ( born February 21, 1957 ).

At various points, Van Zandt's friends saw him shoot up not just heroin, but also cocaine, vodka, as well as a mixture of rum and Coke.

As a result of Van Zandt's constant drinking, Harold Eggers, Kevin's brother, was hired on as his tour manager and 24-hour caretaker in 1976, a partnership that would last for the rest of the singer's life.

Van Zandt's battle with addiction led him to be admitted to rehab almost a dozen times throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

In the years immediately following Van Zandt's death, his former manager and label owner Kevin Eggers issued fourteen albums of both new and previously unreleased material by the singer, all without consent of his estate ( represented by Jeanene Van Zandt and his three children ).

Eggers also claimed a 50 % interest in eighty of Van Zandt's songs.

After nearly ten years of legal battles, the court sided with the estate, issuing " injunctive relief against Eggers, restraining him from reproducing or distributing any of Van Zandt's songs.

It was revealed through these proceedings that Van Zandt's annual income in the years before his death had climbed to over $ 100, 000, thanks in large part to the royalties accrued from his songs being covered by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, Cowboy Junkies, and other major music stars.

After Van Zandt's death, Harold Eggers ( Kevin's brother, Van Zandt's longtime road manager ), whose job it was to make sure Townes ' shows were recorded, released many video and audio recordings from hundreds of the songwriter's concerts he kept in his possession over a twenty-year period.

On October 21, 2008, a number of Van Zandt's personal possessions were auctioned off at The Northside in Akron, Ohio, at a benefit for Wrecks Bell, Van Zandt's close friend and bandmate who was the inspiration for the song " Rex's Blues.

Camper Van Beethoven's 1985 album Telephone Free Landslide Victory includes a track called " Balalaika Gap ".

* Balance ( Van Halen album )

A duet with Ricky Van Shelton, " Rockin ' Years " ( 1991 ) reached number one but Parton's greatest commercial fortune of the decade came when Whitney Houston recorded " I Will Always Love You " for the soundtrack of the feature film The Bodyguard ( 1992 ); both the single and the album were massively successful.

* Enlightenment ( Van Morrison album ), 1990

The album, originally titled To Nancy, with Love, featured rock performers such as Calexico, Sonic Youth, U2, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Steven Van Zandt, Jon Spencer, and Pete Yorn, who all cited Sinatra as an influence.

* " Van Diemen's Land " is the title of the second track from the rock band U2's album Rattle and Hum.

* Van Diemen's Land is referenced in the song " The Helm of Ned Kelly " by the group Blackbird Raum on their third album titled " Under the Starling Host "

* " Van Diemen's island " is mentioned in the song " Highland " by The Elders on their album Pass it on Down

* Van Diemen's Land is a song by Barbara Dickson and is the first track on the album Parcel of Rogues

* The John Renbourn Group album Live In America ( Flying Fish, 1982 ) includes a song entitled " Van Dieman's Land "

* Tom Russell sets Van Diemen's Land as the ship's destination in his song " Isaac Lewis " on the album " Modern Art ".

* Epic ( Sharon Van Etten album ), 2010

With Camper Van Beethoven bass guitarist Victor Krummenacher replacing Wood, the band released the studio album Greenland on June 6, 2006, and continued to tour extensively.

Some bands, such as the Tindersticks, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Crowded House, Van Halen, Duran Duran, Bang Camaro, Santana, Living in a Box, and the Ramones, have released more than one and are thus referred to in other ways, including number and album art ( e. g., The Blue Album ).

In 1999 Jones released the album Reload, a collection of cover duets with artists such as The Cardigans, Natalie Imbruglia, Cerys Matthews, Van Morrison, Mousse T, Portishead, Stereophonics, and Robbie Williams.

Van Ronk would revisit the genre in 1964 with the album " Dave Van Ronk and the Ragtime Jug Stompers ," a modern classic, though his ragtime guitar picking and repertoire influenced many subsequent jug bands.

* Paris ( La Oreja de Van Gogh album ), 2004

Many of the lyrics on the Safe as Milk album were written by Van Vliet in collaboration with the writer Herb Bermann, who befriended Van Vliet after seeing him perform at a bar-gig in Lancaster in 1966.

Richie Unterberger of Allmusic called the album " blues – rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk – rock influences than he would employ on his more avant garde outings ".

Critically acclaimed as Van Vliet's magnum opus, Trout Mask Replica was released as a 28 track double album in June 1969 on Frank Zappa's newly formed Straight Records label.

Van Vliet wanted the whole band to " live " the Trout Mask Replica album.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

An album with " a very coherent structure " in the Magic Band's " most experimental and visionary stage ", it was Van Vliet's most commercially successful in the United Kingdom, spending twenty weeks on the UK Albums Chart and peaking at number 20.