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<center><h3> Disturbing | <center><h3> Disturbing the peace </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Borre Haugstad </center> | <center> Borre Haugstad </center> | ||
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'''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... | |||
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Why "Peace In Our Time"? | Why "Peace In Our Time"? | ||
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With this new song "Peace In Our Time," Costello completes a trilogy (along with "Shipbuilding" and "Pills And Soap") of political pop for the '80s. I'm sure there will be more. | With this new song "Peace In Our Time," Costello completes a trilogy (along with "Shipbuilding" and "Pills And Soap") of political pop for the '80s. I'm sure there will be more. | ||
Another thing that struck me at the [[Concert 1983-11-26 Oslo|Oslo]] show was Costello's voice: at times it was remarkably similar to | Another thing that struck me at the [[Concert 1983-11-26 Oslo|Oslo]] show was Costello's voice: at times it was remarkably similar to David Ackles. Confronted with this, he burst out: "Good grief! David Ackles is one of my favourites." | ||
"I've never met anybody who's ever heard of him. His first album on Elektra was one of my favourite albums." | "I've never met anybody who's ever heard of him. His first album on Elektra was one of my favourite albums." | ||
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David Ackles, as some of you may remember, made a stunningly beautiful self-titled album in 1968. Julie Driscoll covered one of the album's songs, "Road To Cairo," the very same year. Costello was enthusiastic. | David Ackles, as some of you may remember, made a stunningly beautiful self-titled album in 1968. Julie Driscoll covered one of the album's songs, "Road To Cairo," the very same year. Costello was enthusiastic. | ||
"Some of his stuff is a bit doomy and pretentious, but I really like a lot of it, like 'Road To Cairo' and ' | "Some of his stuff is a bit doomy and pretentious, but I really like a lot of it, like 'Road To Cairo' and 'Down River.' There's some fantastic guitar playing on that first Ackles album, like gothic-psychedelic music... He's a very talented writer, it's terrible so few people have heard about him. He should have been a big star in the right sense of the word. | ||
After his first album, ''David Ackles'', he made two more LPs for Elektra, ''Subway To The Country'' and ''American Gothic'' (the last one hailed as a masterpiece in the ''NME Illustrated Encyclopaedia Of Rock''). His fourth and last album, '' | After his first album, ''David Ackles'', he made two more LPs for Elektra, ''Subway To The Country'' and ''American Gothic'' (the last one hailed as a masterpiece in the ''NME Illustrated Encyclopaedia Of Rock''). His fourth and last album, ''D.T. Ackles Five And Dime'' was released on Columbia, exactly ten years ago. | ||
What about the similarity between the voices? | What about the similarity between the voices? | ||
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