Steven Van Zandt: why playing in Springsteen's band helped me become right-hand man to a very different boss... Tony Soprano

FOR FANS of The Sopranos, Steven Van Zandt will forever be Sil, consigliere — chief adviser — to troubled mob boss Tony Soprano. In reality he is Little Steven, 68, guitar slinger, long-standing E Street Band member and lieutenant to another revered Boss, Bruce Springsteen.