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Concert review for [[Concert 1986-10-04 Los Angeles|1986-10-04 Los Angeles]].
''Concert review for [[Concert 1986-10-04 Los Angeles|1986-10-04 Los Angeles]].''
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<center><h3>ELVIS IS MAIN ATTRACTION ON US TOUR</h3></center>
BY CHRIS MORRIS <br>
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LOS ANGELES {{m}} Elvis Costello's much-anticipated six-city US tour kicked off here Oct. 1 with the first of five sold-out shows at the Beverly Theater.
{{p}} Dubbed Costello Sings Again, the intimate-venue tour features the idiosyncratic vocalist in a different musical setting each night. Costello is being backed by two different assemblages during the tour: his regular group, [[the Attractions]], and [[the Confederates]], an aggregation of crack studio musicians who played on the singer's "King Of America" album, released earlier this year.
{{p}} The tour, which coincides with the release of "Blood And Chocolate," his second Columbia album of 1986, continues through October. Other stops include San Francisco, Oct. 8-10; Chicago, Sunday- Tuesday (12-14); Boston, Thursday-Saturday (16-18); New York, Oct. 21-25; and Philadelphia, Oct. 27-29. The first show of the LA visit was perhaps the least surprising: Costello & the Attractions (keyboardist Steve Nieve, bassist Bruce Thomas, and drummer Pete Thomas) ran through a retrospective of 25 songs from nine albums. The band fielded requests from the audience ...


 
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Concert review for 1986-10-04 Los Angeles.


ELVIS IS MAIN ATTRACTION ON US TOUR

BY CHRIS MORRIS


LOS ANGELES   Elvis Costello's much-anticipated six-city US tour kicked off here Oct. 1 with the first of five sold-out shows at the Beverly Theater.
  Dubbed Costello Sings Again, the intimate-venue tour features the idiosyncratic vocalist in a different musical setting each night. Costello is being backed by two different assemblages during the tour: his regular group, the Attractions, and the Confederates, an aggregation of crack studio musicians who played on the singer's "King Of America" album, released earlier this year.
  The tour, which coincides with the release of "Blood And Chocolate," his second Columbia album of 1986, continues through October. Other stops include San Francisco, Oct. 8-10; Chicago, Sunday- Tuesday (12-14); Boston, Thursday-Saturday (16-18); New York, Oct. 21-25; and Philadelphia, Oct. 27-29. The first show of the LA visit was perhaps the least surprising: Costello & the Attractions (keyboardist Steve Nieve, bassist Bruce Thomas, and drummer Pete Thomas) ran through a retrospective of 25 songs from nine albums. The band fielded requests from the audience ...





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