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Elvis Costello is off on a solo tour that will bring him to the Orpheum in Boston April 18, and at this point it looks as though that's as close to Rhode Island as he's going to get. Tickets - $13.65 and $12.65 - are on sale now through Ticketron. T-Bone Burnett will open the show at 7:30 p.m.The idea of a rocker performing without his band is nothing new. Neil Young has been doing it on and off since the '60s, and in the last few years so have Peter Townshend, Bruce Springsteen, Warren... | Elvis Costello is off on a solo tour that will bring him to the Orpheum in Boston April 18, and at this point it looks as though that's as close to Rhode Island as he's going to get. Tickets - $13.65 and $12.65 - are on sale now through Ticketron. T-Bone Burnett will open the show at 7:30 p.m.The idea of a rocker performing without his band is nothing new. Neil Young has been doing it on and off since the '60s, and in the last few years so have Peter Townshend, Bruce Springsteen, Warren... | ||
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Providence Journal (RI) - October 20, 1986 | |||
Concert review Elvis Costello came back in all his rocking power | |||
Elvis Costello, rock 'n' roller, had become just a memory, the drive and fury of his early albums replaced since the early 1980s by a more refined, sophisticated approach that had little to do with rock's brash venting of energy.Costello even went so far as to change his name back to Declan MacManus, his given name, as if to distance himself from the angry rocker he had been.To confuse things even further, the singer in the black suit and Buddy Holly eyeglasses who ended a... | |||
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