Overview

• Steven Van Zandt underwent an emergency appendectomy on June 23 in San Sebastián after mistaking sharp abdominal pain for food poisoning.
• He will miss the E Street Band’s upcoming European dates in Gelsenkirchen on June 27 and at Milan’s San Siro on June 30 and July 3.
• Nils Lofgren has stepped in to cover Van Zandt’s guitar parts for the tour, replicating the band’s arrangement from a previous health-related absence.
• Van Zandt announced his hope to return for at least one Milan performance if his recovery goes as expected.
• Bruce Springsteen is releasing Tracks II: The Lost Albums, an 83-track collection due June 27, as the duo celebrates over 60 years of collaboration.