PAUL MCCARTNEY, LITTLE STEVEN BEATLES COVER IN NEW BOX SET

Paul McCartney and Little Steven's cover of the Beatles' I Saw Her Standing There, from 2017 appears on Van Zandt's new box set "Soulfire Live!" They had tried to play it together at a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band gig in Hyde Park in 2012 before the town pulled the plug midway through because they went past curfew.

Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul were nearly done with their set at London’s Roundhouse in November of 2017 when Van Zandt told the crowd that a special guest was going to join them on the stage. “I got a friend of mine that wants to come out,” he said. “We need to finish some unfinished business. Say hello to Mr. Paul McCartney.”

They played “I Saw Her Standing There.” “[It was] one of the most thrilling moments of my life,” Van Zandt said in a statement. “It was an incredibly generous endorsement of my own work and just the encouragement my new artistic rebirth needed.”
The amazing performance is just one tiny element of Van Zandt’s new Soulfire Live! box set, drawn from 2017 stops on his ongoing comeback tour with the Disciples of Soul. The release is available in both seven-LP and two-disc Blu-ray editions.