Dallas Morning News, May 7, 1995: Difference between revisions
(create page for interview in Dallas Morning News from May 1995) |
(add link to EC Homepage + "Selected quotes") |
||
Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
---- | ---- | ||
{{Bibliography text}} | {{Bibliography text}} | ||
''The full article is not available, but here are some excerpts in which Elvis responds to questions:'' | |||
'''On selecting obscure covers instead of famous ones:''' | |||
"...but say you decided you were going to do "Cryin'" by Aerosmith. You | |||
could do a great R&B version of that, as I'm sure they had in their | |||
minds when they wrote it. But you'd have to wait a few years before | |||
everybody didn't have an image of [[Steven Tyler]] in leotards in their head | |||
on first hearing." | |||
'''On the album's approach to the songs:''' | |||
"All these songs have got stories to tell, and by approaching them | |||
differently, you do draw out something that maybe the writer had in the | |||
back of his mind, or maybe he didn't have it in his mind at all." | |||
'''On the ''Kojak Variety'' musicians:''' | |||
"Whenever we got together, we got kind of a group sound. Obviously, after | |||
five years, you develop some kind of understanding, and I didn't feel | |||
we had a record of that band with individual members taking a turn in | |||
the spotlight. When you've got James Burton along and you've only | |||
recorded one guitar solo on him, that's something of an oversight." | |||
'''On Duran Duran's cover of Watching The Detectives:''' | |||
"It sounds like Duran Duran doing Watching the Detectives to me, with | |||
everything that entails." | |||
'''On Blur's cover of [[Oliver's Army]]''': | |||
"An English group that is very big in England and hasn't yet seemed to | |||
charm anybody in America did a version of Oliver's Army that is great. | |||
I went out of fashion for quite a while in terms of younger bands doing | |||
my material. You'd be hard-pushed to find any younger artists a couple | |||
of years ago who would have admitted to holding one of my records, let | |||
alone recording them. But it seems, as it always does, to be switching | |||
back a little bit now. There's a few people starting to acknowledge my | |||
existence." | |||
'''On Bob & Hilary James' [[Baby Plays Around]]:''' | |||
"Bob James? No, I don't even know the name. He did the music for Taxi? | |||
Oh, I like that song. ...Wow, I'd love to hear that." | |||
'''On computers:''' | |||
"I've never actually plugged my computer into the wall. You've got to | |||
remember, I got out of computers to get into music, so I'm not in a big | |||
hurry to go back." | |||
'''On the WWW [http://www.elviscostello.info Elvis Costello Home Page]:''' | |||
"There's only so much I would find interesting about anybody, so I find | |||
it hard to imagine that anybody would be interested in that amount of | |||
detail about me. But it's very flattering." | |||
{{cx}} | {{cx}} | ||
Line 31: | Line 87: | ||
*[http://www.dallasnews.com/ DallasNews.com] | *[http://www.dallasnews.com/ DallasNews.com] | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dallas_Morning_News Wikipedia: Dallas Morning News] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dallas_Morning_News Wikipedia: Dallas Morning News] | ||
*[http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/d-g/dallas_morning_news.950507a.txt elviscostello.info] | |||
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dallas Morning News 1995-05-07}} | {{DEFAULTSORT:Dallas Morning News 1995-05-07}} |
Revision as of 16:42, 24 September 2017
|