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| | Why "Peace In Our Time"? |
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| | "I used the phrase Neville Chamberlain said when landed back in England (''following his 1938 meeting with Adolf Hitler'') as a starting point for the title of the song, which is about the way we are always lied to whenever they say 'Now we've got an agreement we've got the missiles,' 'Now we're all safe.'" |
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| | "There's always a reason why we're told that, and it's always a lie, you know; you can't make agreements with fascist madmen, you can't have destructive weapons without running the risk of eventually blowing people up. I think it's a complete hypocrisy. It's not intended as a pompous song. I wrote it because I'm as frightened as everybody else. |
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| | "I'm gonna do a [[Concert 1983-12-18 London|show]] on the 19th of December (''at the Victoria Apollo, with Style Council, Ian Dury, Mari Wilson and others'') which is a collection of comedians, actors and musicians to raise money to forward the campaign against the Cruise missiles. In some sense it's too late because the missiles are already there, but the important thing now is to sway people's opinion, get them to really see the danger they are facing. |
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Disturbing The Peace
At Elvis Costello's recent show in Oslo, he unveiled a new song, performed solo, entitled "Peace In Our Time." Norwegian writer Borre Haugstad spoke to him about it after the show...
Borre Haugstad
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Why "Peace In Our Time"?
"I used the phrase Neville Chamberlain said when landed back in England (following his 1938 meeting with Adolf Hitler) as a starting point for the title of the song, which is about the way we are always lied to whenever they say 'Now we've got an agreement we've got the missiles,' 'Now we're all safe.'"
"There's always a reason why we're told that, and it's always a lie, you know; you can't make agreements with fascist madmen, you can't have destructive weapons without running the risk of eventually blowing people up. I think it's a complete hypocrisy. It's not intended as a pompous song. I wrote it because I'm as frightened as everybody else.
"I'm gonna do a show on the 19th of December (at the Victoria Apollo, with Style Council, Ian Dury, Mari Wilson and others) which is a collection of comedians, actors and musicians to raise money to forward the campaign against the Cruise missiles. In some sense it's too late because the missiles are already there, but the important thing now is to sway people's opinion, get them to really see the danger they are facing.
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New Musical Express, December 17, 1983
Borre Haugstad interviews Elvis Costello.
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Photo by Peter Anderson.
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