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In the summer of '77 brought out, who was born in Liverpool programmers and Pub singer Declan McManus, aged 23 years, his first LP with their own songs, Elvis had just died. That fitted well. The King is dead, long live the king.
Declan McManus, a small, scrawny, quite ugly, driven by ill-humor misogynist, was also called Elvis. on his debut on the advice of his apparently humorous Manager There seemed to be not much to begin with an Elvis McManus on a global scale, he also went back to the maiden name of his mother, she said Costello. What could not at the time of irony and New Wave guessed, only a little later Elvis Costello really mattered and post-ironically the biggest songwriters of pop music, for his album "King of America" he was consequently photographed with such a kind of crown.
Elvis Costello cut across the genres, playing jazz, country, art song and chamber music, sometimes even rock and roll. The king with the little hat wandered around the world. Only he never came to Memphis. Until now, because of his DVD "Club Date - Live in Memphis" he is finally returned to those cradle in which he has never been located. With his eternal companions Pete Thomas on drums and Steve Nieve on keyboards Elvis Costello has performed in front of 200 lucky people in the capital of blues and soul and whatnot yet. Club Date is the gig you always dreamed you'd be at, says the record company, and as surreptitious advertising is just modern, we sneak in at this point with you. Elvis Costello sings, cries, plays, scrubs and sweats through a ninety-minute program with twenty all old and new songs, hardly a number takes with him more than three minutes, Pauses for breath there are not, and after half an hour remains one while watching the heart . stand On the side of his always wonderful nascent duet partner Emmylou Harris Costello touches first en passant the myths of American pop music - when they sing Johnny Cash and Gram Parsons - to have finally absorbed "Suspicious Minds" in his own classic "Alison" . Elvis is Elvis. And is not the goal of his journey.
In a bonus chapter you can follow the English Elvis on the way from Memphis, Tennessee to Oxford, Mississippi, in the heart of the blues. It goes beyond the muddy river, past that plantation, worked on the Muddy Waters, through the cotton fields to Clarksdale where Robert Johnson met his devil. Costello told the meantime, as the Blues came to Liverpool. It's that old story that knows no beginning and no end.
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