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Now with such greats as ''This Year's Model'', ''Armed Forces'', ''Imperial Bedroom'', and ''Punch The Clock'', behind him, Costello can rightly be called the most important force in contemporary music. | Now with such greats as ''This Year's Model'', ''Armed Forces'', ''Imperial Bedroom'', and ''Punch The Clock'', behind him, Costello can rightly be called the most important force in contemporary music. | ||
He has long been known as an angry and difficult person — by the journalists whom he has traditionally shunned and the concert-goers he once disdained. Recently, as evidenced by a new-found openness to communication and a mellower tone on ''Imperial Bedroom'' and ''Punch The Clock'', he has loosened-up a bit. He says about his image, in a ''Los Angeles Times'' article, "I think I was definitely beginning to lose control of things. It's too personal to go into all of it, but I will say I made several wrong turns in succession around the time of the ''Armed Forces'' album I found myself getting farther and farther from what I started out to be and moving toward all the things I hated." | He has long been known as an angry and difficult person — by the journalists whom he has traditionally shunned and the concert-goers he once disdained. Recently, as evidenced by a new-found openness to communication and a mellower tone on ''Imperial Bedroom'' and ''Punch The Clock'', he has loosened-up a bit. He says about his image, in a ''Los Angeles Times'' [[Los Angeles Times, July 18, 1982|article]], "I think I was definitely beginning to lose control of things. It's too personal to go into all of it, but I will say I made several wrong turns in succession around the time of the ''Armed Forces'' album I found myself getting farther and farther from what I started out to be and moving toward all the things I hated." | ||
Asked in the same article why he was doing interviews again he said, "I think it's just time. I've been making records for five years now, and certain things probably need some explanation." | Asked in the same article why he was doing interviews again he said, "I think it's just time. I've been making records for five years now, and certain things probably need some explanation." |
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