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|performer = [[Elvis Costello]] | |performer = [[Elvis Costello]] | ||
|producer = [[Elvis Costello]] | |producer = [[Elvis Costello]] | ||
|musicians = [[Elvis Costello]] - | |musicians = [[Elvis Costello]] - speech & guitar | ||
|record_info = | |record_info = | ||
|release_info = August 28, 2020 (download/stream)<br> | |release_info = August 28, 2020 (download/stream)<br>October 30, 2020 (CD) | ||
|albums = | |albums = [[Hey Clockface]] (Japan CD bonus track), 2020 | ||
|singles = | |singles = [[We Are All Cowards Now]] (digital b-side), 2020 | ||
|collections = | |collections = | ||
|soundtracks = | |soundtracks = | ||
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| quote = | | quote = [It] is a very strange story about a presidential inauguration some time in the future, after a civil war, in which the internet has been switched off and all the books have been burnt or locked in a university. And they can’t find anybody sufficiently dignified to give the inauguration speech, so they send an engineer into the national archive to chop up words from soundtracks and spoken word pieces by Orson Welles because he sounds serious. When he’s speaking his voice sounded very like, ‘Pay attention’.<br><br>So somebody writes the speech, but they can’t find anybody dignified enough to say it. So they cut together individual words and this sort of mechanical assembly of words gives the speech, announcing the inauguration of a new president. Who is a young woman who sings this song, called President Swift. So I’ll leave it to you to decide who that is. But a fanciful idea, you can imagine the times we’re living in. It sort of came to me in a moment and I thought I should write it down. That was enjoyable to do you know, because that one is sort of the a shaggy dog story. | ||
| source = | | source = [https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elvis-costello-hey-clockface-interview-18472/ Rolling Stone Australia, October 30, 2020] | ||
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[[image:Phonographic Memory single artwork.jpg|99px|center]] | [[image:Phonographic Memory single artwork.jpg|99px|center]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:20, 3 November 2020
"We have come not so much to a fork in the road, as a fork on the plate, scraping the last lick off the gravy train of history" |
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“[It] is a very strange story about a presidential inauguration some time in the future, after a civil war, in which the internet has been switched off and all the books have been burnt or locked in a university. And they can’t find anybody sufficiently dignified to give the inauguration speech, so they send an engineer into the national archive to chop up words from soundtracks and spoken word pieces by Orson Welles because he sounds serious. When he’s speaking his voice sounded very like, ‘Pay attention’. So somebody writes the speech, but they can’t find anybody dignified enough to say it. So they cut together individual words and this sort of mechanical assembly of words gives the speech, announcing the inauguration of a new president. Who is a young woman who sings this song, called President Swift. So I’ll leave it to you to decide who that is. But a fanciful idea, you can imagine the times we’re living in. It sort of came to me in a moment and I thought I should write it down. That was enjoyable to do you know, because that one is sort of the a shaggy dog story.” — Rolling Stone Australia, October 30, 2020 |
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