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<center><h3> | <center><h3> Greatest Show On Earth </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' | <center>''' Elvis Costello And The Attractions </center> | ||
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Oh, I just don't know where to begin. Nearly nine hours of music, something like 100 songs, some great jokes, lots of laughs, a few tears, one brawl, a soft-shoe shuffle and The Attractions sounding lean, handsome and vicious, back to their best fighting weight, unencumbered by shrieking backing vocalists and flabby horns, recalling their best scorched earth performances of the late Seventies. | |||
I mean it: witnessing Costello over the first three nights of his marathon [[Royalty Theatre|residency]] at the Royalty was like watching the best part of the last 10 tumultuous years of my life flashing in front of my eyes. These shows might nave been designed as a kind of informal musical autobiography, a celebration of Costello's unassailable position as the pre-eminent songwriter of the last decade, with songs plucked from every period of his turbulent career, but they also revealed the extent to which his music has documented the disasters and triumphs of lives other than his own. | I mean it: witnessing Costello over the first three nights of his marathon [[Royalty Theatre|residency]] at the Royalty was like watching the best part of the last 10 tumultuous years of my life flashing in front of my eyes. These shows might nave been designed as a kind of informal musical autobiography, a celebration of Costello's unassailable position as the pre-eminent songwriter of the last decade, with songs plucked from every period of his turbulent career, but they also revealed the extent to which his music has documented the disasters and triumphs of lives other than his own. | ||
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