BOSS ON LETTERMAN
CALL Bruce Springsteen the boss of late night TV and morning shows.
Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform two nights in a row, next Thursday and Friday on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”
On July 30 – the day his new album with the E Street Band, called “The Rising,” is released – Springsteen will be playing live from his home turf in Asbury Park, N.J. on a special edition of the “Today” show.
That night he’ll talk with Ted Koppel on “Nightline” at 11:35 p.m. and immediately afterwards on Koppel’s “Upclose” at 12:05 a.m.
Springsteen tells Koppel how the events of 9/11 inspired many of the recordings on “The Rising” and will perform his new song, “Empty Skies,” about the pain of losing a loved one.
It’s something of a TV blitz for The Boss, who hasn’t made a studio album with the E Street Band since 1984.
His last appearance on the Letterman show was in 1995.

