Stevie Van Zandt of The E Street Band Talks 5 Decades of Bruce Springsteen

The new documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, out on Oct. 25 on Disney+ and Hulu, follows Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band as they get ready for and then play their 2023 world tour — their first full tour as a group since 2016.

The seven-year break from live performance was the longest in E Street’s history, and the film — helmed by frequent Springsteen cinematic collaborator Thom Zimmy — documents every step of the band’s return. We spoke to guitarist and E Street Band musical director Stevie Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen’s manager and co-producer on multiple albums, Jon Landau, about coming back to the stage after nearly a decade away, trying new things during a band’s fifth decade together, and why “we continue to surprise people, and I think that’s a good thing.”