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To Joyce Millman: | |||
How is it exactly, as you state so unequivocally in your Elvis Costello piece (Arts, March 4), that Costello's "Elvis is king" proclamation seemed "like a brash and scrappy dance on Elvis Presley's still warm grave," when in fact Mr. Presley had a few months to go on this planet when ''My Aim Is True'' was released? The point being, the Elvis campaign was intended as a gibe, a poke, not an "unceremonious burial." The name Elvis Costello was the choice of Stiff Records; and Declan MacManus went along for the ride. Regrets? He's had a few. | |||
How about you, Joyce? | |||
Oh, and he didn't revert to Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus. He was born without "Aloysius" — added it later. | |||
— Dawn Larson<br> | |||
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Joyce Millman replies: | |||
No regrets. By the time ''My Aim Is True'' hit <i>Billboard</i>'s album charts, Elvis Presley was well and truly dead; what I said was that the "Elvis is king" legend seemed a certain way, not that it was intended a certain way. I'll stand by that observation. I'll also stand by my report that "Aloysius" is part of the album's credits, which is all I did report. When the point is how many times MacManus has changed his name, who cares whether he's changed it another time? | |||
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Reader Dawn Larson quibbles over details in [[Joyce Millman]]'s [[Boston Phoenix, March 4, 1986|review]] of ''King Of America''. | |||
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