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His finest work since ''Imperial Bedroom'' (or maybe ''Get Happy!!''), this forlorn. guilt-ridden record mingles the allure Of America with the temptation of fame, and it yearns for the possibility of being heard clearly in a career that has slipped away from Costello. ''"They pulled him out of the cold, cold ground / And they put him in a suit of lights,"'' goes the pivotal track on the record, Producer T-Bone Burnett provides full-bodied yet spare support from a cast of players who center on rock's sources in C & W, blues, and jazz; anchored by a spooky cover of the Animals' "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," the album catches a marriage breaking up ("Indoor Fireworks"), England choking to a halt ("Little Palaces"), and a host of American dreams gone haywire ("American Without Tears," "Eisenhower Blues," "Brilliant Mistake"). Although too long and scattered, ''King of America'' gives its pervasive self-pity and drunken buffoonery a perverse eloquence. Clowntime is over. | |||
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'''Boston Phoenix, March 18, 1986 | '''Boston Phoenix, March 18, 1986 | ||
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A reader | Includes a capsule review of ''[[King Of America]]''. | ||
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A reader nitpicks [[Joyce Millman]]'s March 4th ''KOA'' [[Boston Phoenix, March 4, 1986|review]]. | |||
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To Joyce Millman: | |||
How is it exactly, as you state so unequivocally in your Elvis Costello piece (Arts, [[Boston Phoenix, March 4, 1986|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, Brighton | |||
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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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phoenix_(newspaper) Wikipedia: The Phoenix] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phoenix_(newspaper) Wikipedia: The Phoenix] | ||
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