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<center><h3> Elvis sighting</h3></center> | |||
<center><h3> Elvis | |||
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So why do rock critics love Elvis Costello? Is it really, as David Lee Roth suggested, because they all look like Elvis Costello? (No, actually; as writer George Kalogerakis once noted, they bear more of a resemblance to George Constanza on ''Seinfeld''.) | So why do rock critics love Elvis Costello? Is it really, as David Lee Roth suggested, because they all look like Elvis Costello? (No, actually; as writer George Kalogerakis once noted, they bear more of a resemblance to George Constanza on ''Seinfeld''.) | ||
Is it that Costello's mix of penetrating melody and mordant wit makes him the Kurt Weill — if not the R. Crumb — of the post-punk era? | |||
Or is it that critics knew what a perversely perfect rock icon could be made of a four-eyed, knock-kneed geek named Elvis? | |||
Now, eighteen years after he emerged, Costello himself seems slightly puzzled by such issues. On last year's ''Brutal Youth'', the 39-year-old artist seemed to be probing the roots of his myth: regrouping with his explosive original band, the Attractions; turning out the sort of pithy, cranked-up rock songs that defined him as the bristling successor to Bob Dylan. (His latest, ''Kojak Variety'', was also a playing holiday; a sometimes fun, sometimes unconvincing run through R&B chestnuts and rockabilly B-sides). Could he, too, be showing signs of ''nostalgie de la'' New Wave? Costello has always been something of a shape-shifter, and at his appearance at the Beacon Theatre (August 2-4 (sold out), 6 and 7), the Attractions will abet all his previous incarnations: lit-punk, neo-Gershwin, torch singer, caustic folkie. Just don't be surprised if there's more than a touch of the Angry (not so) Young Man. Like rock critics, normal people love it when an icon still rocks. | |||
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[[Chris Norris]] | [[Chris Norris]] profiles Elvis Costello ahead of his concerts with [[The Attractions]], Wednesday-Monday, [[Concert 1995-08-02 New York|August 2]]-[[Concert 1995-08-07 New York|7 1995]], Beacon Theatre, New York. | ||
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