On stage at Wembley Stadium in late July, performing alongside his childhood buddy Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt looks entirely relaxed as the E Street Band hammer out Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark and The Rising to 90,000 fans. Twenty-four hours later, on stage at a screening theatre in Soho after the premiere of Disciple, an HBO documentary about his life, Van Zandt stands in front of just 100 people, many of them close friends and colleagues, and looks as if he’d rather be anywhere else.
He has long been lost to me.
