Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple

Matt Roush says...

A colorful documentary portrait of musician, actor and activist Stevie Van Zandt paints him as a “Renaissance man” in the words of The Sopranos creator David Chase, who cast him against type as the invaluable Silvio Dante. Bruce Springsteen calls Little Stevie “my rock ‘n’ roll brother,” reflecting on their rise to fame in the E Street Band, where Van Zandt saw his role as “the Dean Martin in our rock ‘n’ roll Rat Pack.” He left the band for a while in the 1980s to chart his own path, including organizing the cross-genre “Sun City” track to protest apartheid in South Africa, but they’re still making amazing music today. Disciple features commentary from Springsteen and fellow music greats Paul McCartney, Bono, Eddie Vedder, Darlene Love, Joan Jett, Peter Gabriel, Ruben Blades and more.

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