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Elvis Costello is offering a grand tour of his refurbished Imperial Bedroom this summer.
The 62-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and his longtime band, the Imposters, will kick off a 20-stop nationwide swing June 4 in Berkeley, California. They'll turn out the lights July 25 in Providence, Rhode Island.
Costello will showcase Imperial Bedroom, the 1982 album that featured songs like "Man Out of Time" and "Almost Blue" and was hailed as a "masterpiece" by Rolling Stone. But he stressed that he has freshened up the joint for its 35th anniversary celebration.
"Listen to our new arrangement of 'Tears Before Bedtime,'" advises Costello, who is currently playing his way through Europe. "It gets straight to the real meaning of that song, the way we hear and feel it today."
The rest of the show will explore the second half of the tour's title, "Imperial Bedroom & Other Chambers." Expect to hear "Alison," "Watching the Detectives" and a surprise or two from the vast catalog Costello has compiled in the 40 years since his debut album, 1977's My Aim is True.
"You never know who or what you are going to encounter down the corridor to those 'Other Chambers,'" he says.
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