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D.P. Costello of Whitton, Middlesex, it is
your turn to be The Future of Rock & Roll
Nick Kent
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It's been a rough old week for Elvis Costello. Last weekend he was right up there in the play lists with his "Red Shoes" single – a tentative third-time-lucky – a cosey Top 20 cloister for the album and even the national press getting hot-to-trot with the Costello form for 1977.
The Daily Express's showbusinesss correspondent, a fellow with the unlikely name of Garth Pierce, did an interview with E.C. for a full page "this-is-my tip-to-click" item dated for last Thursday as did an influential scribe from the Daily Mail, again for last week.
And what happens? Some other geezer sharing Costello's maiden name sloughs off the mortal coil and all the "tastewmakers" consider it irreverent to even make mention of this young-blood's very existence.
Result: the man who would be king's career is in a right two-and-eight for the whole week of August 13-20. A grevious impasse after such a mecurial lift-off...
El's already had his share of controversy, y'know. Yessir, even the National Front have apparently been trying to dog his tracks ever since the release of the first-ever Costello vinyl artifact "Less Than Zero" (Stiff 45) which bears a heavy anti-N.F. bias, the song itself being a tacitly fanciful depiction of the landed gentry's rave black sheep boy of the Isherwood era, Oswald Mosley.
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Photo by Pennie Smith.
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