As right hand man to Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Van Zandt was guitarist in The E
Street Band and played some of The Boss's biggest hits before becoming a
strident political voice, later acting in the hugely successful TV show 'The
Sopranos'.
Born in Boston but moving to New Jersey when he was seven, his life changed when
he saw The Beatles on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'. He grew up idolising George
Harrison and the British invasion bands who inspired him to start forming his
own groups in the mid-1960s. He first played with Springsteen in the 1970s in
the band Steel Mill and cut h...