Boss “drafted” for Republican convention

A NEW YORK concert promoter has mounted an online campaign to “draft” Bruce Springsteen to headline a rock’n’roll show to upstage the Republican National Convention on the night it nominates US President George W Bush to run for another term.

The Concert for Change would be held on September 1 at Giants Stadium, across the Hudson River from the Republicans’ meeting at Madison Square Garden, said promoter and Democratic activist Andrew Rasiej, who has reserved the date at the New Jersey venue Springsteen routinely fills when he tours.