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''' Why I wear what I wear: Elvis Costello | |||
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''I don't imagine you're the sort of guy who obsesses about his eyeware, but you do have a sense of fashion. You have, for instance, cool glasses. | ''I don't imagine you're the sort of guy who obsesses about his eyeware, but you do have a sense of fashion. You have, for instance, cool glasses. | ||
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Younger people seem to relate to him through a slightly kitsch appeal. He has a great sense of style, and he's very laid-back. Rut I think a lot of his songs have been interpreted in sort of easy-listening ways. When you listen to the original compositions, I don't think they have a whole lot to do with that. They were quite a lot more passionate. | Younger people seem to relate to him through a slightly kitsch appeal. He has a great sense of style, and he's very laid-back. Rut I think a lot of his songs have been interpreted in sort of easy-listening ways. When you listen to the original compositions, I don't think they have a whole lot to do with that. They were quite a lot more passionate. | ||
''There are images of you that | ''There are images of you that are iconic, like the cover of Trust — again, with those black-framed glasses. The poster from that was an important image in Less Than Zero. | ||
We recently had a compilation come out. It has a huge picture of me on the front from 1977. It's more or less like a logo rather than a real picture of me — a Warhol-style treatment. It's the strongest single image of me that's ever been made. The record [''The Very Best of Elvis Costello''] came out about nine weeks ago, and it's done remarkably well in England. It was outselling Ricky Martin. It was really great. We went in at number four. It was like, "What's going on?" I thought I'd entered an alternative universe. | We recently had a compilation come out. It has a huge picture of me on the front from 1977. It's more or less like a logo rather than a real picture of me — a Warhol-style treatment. It's the strongest single image of me that's ever been made. The record [''The Very Best of Elvis Costello''] came out about nine weeks ago, and it's done remarkably well in England. It was outselling Ricky Martin. It was really great. We went in at number four. It was like, "What's going on?" I thought I'd entered an alternative universe. | ||
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