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Ten nights, 250 songs, only one Elvis Costello
Simon Garfield
More than four decades into an astonishing career, the pop legend's energy and ambition appears undimmed. Esquire joined him for the entirety of his recent residency at the Gramercy Theatre, Manhattan, for a rare encounter with a remarkable man
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In September 2022 I got an email from Elvis Costello. Technically it was from elviscostello.com, a fan subscription list, with news of shows planned for February 2023, but I felt it was sent only with me in mind. Costello was to play 10 nights at the intimate Gramercy Theatre in Manhattan, promising not to repeat a single song in the entire run. This meant at least 200 different songs, perhaps a third of his entire catalogue, stretching back almost 50 years. As far as I knew, no one — not Dylan, not Springsteen, not Schubert — had ever tried a similar thing before.
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Photos by Simon Emmett.
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