Interview with Elvis Costello: "I'm Sicked by the Music Industry"
ABC Brisbane, 2003-10-21
- Scott Spark

 

Elvis Costello tells ABC Brisbane: I'm Sickened by the Music Industry

Reporter: Scott Spark

Presenter: Spencer Howson

Tuesday, 21 October 2003

Elvis Costello

He’s one of our most enduring rock musicians and pop-cultural icons. Yet, in all his 26-years of releasing music, Elvis Costello has never achieved a #1 hit record on any chart, anywhere in the world. Until now!

Elvis Costello’s twentieth album, “North”, was released last month, and has just topped the Billboard Traditional Jazz Album Chart.

612 ABC Brisbane’s Scott Spark discovered a man sickened by the industry in which he works and seriously considering ending his recording career yet, at the same time, happy to celebrate his first ever #1 record!!

Exclusive to ABC Online, here's a thirty minute edit of Scott Spark's original interview (including seventeen minutes of bonus material, not broadcast on 612 ABC Brisbane).

Listen to Elvis Costello with 612 ABC Brisbane's Scott Spark
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