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<center><h3> The Juliet Letters </h3></center> | <center><h3> The Juliet Letters </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet </center> | <center>''' Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet </center> | ||
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But the extraordinary thing is, these are not just ten knock-down Costello numbers, plucked at random from the unpublished back catalogue or picked off a dusty shelf. Lyrically, they seem, at least in places, to be drawing on James's own life and times. "All Elvis knew of me was what anybody who had read a certain amount of music press knew, and what he could ascertain from my letter. Yet here was my own personal Elvis Costello album." | But the extraordinary thing is, these are not just ten knock-down Costello numbers, plucked at random from the unpublished back catalogue or picked off a dusty shelf. Lyrically, they seem, at least in places, to be drawing on James's own life and times. "All Elvis knew of me was what anybody who had read a certain amount of music press knew, and what he could ascertain from my letter. Yet here was my own personal Elvis Costello album." | ||
Take "[[Puppet Girl]]," for instance, a piece about having your strings yanked ("Hey there, puppet girl, who put the mouth in all the things you say?"). Or take the Ladbroke Grove satire, "[[London's Brilliant]]," which snaps at those ''"still digging up the bones of Strummer and Jones"'' and warns that ''"a cool profile down Ladbroke Grove won't make it no more"''. Or take "[[Do You Know What I'm Saying]]," James's personal favourite, which includes the line, ''"The past prima donna in buttons and bells was speaking what's left of her mind as the audience rebelled...'' | Take "[[Puppet Girl]]," for instance, a piece about having your strings yanked ("Hey there, puppet girl, who put the mouth in all the things you say?"). Or take the Ladbroke Grove satire, "[[London's Brilliant]]," which snaps at those ''"still digging up the bones of Strummer and Jones"'' and warns that ''"a cool profile down Ladbroke Grove won't make it no more"''. Or take "[[Do You Know What I'm Saying?|Do You Know What I'm Saying]]," James's personal favourite, which includes the line, ''"The past prima donna in buttons and bells was speaking what's left of her mind as the audience rebelled...'' | ||
"There's not one song where I got off easy. That one reminds me of that state where you're drunk and you find yourself pointing at yourself in a mirror. It's a song about any place where praise is given unduly and things are built up out of proportion. And when I recorded it, I was feeling like I wanted to put a few holes in my old self, give that self a slap round the face." | "There's not one song where I got off easy. That one reminds me of that state where you're drunk and you find yourself pointing at yourself in a mirror. It's a song about any place where praise is given unduly and things are built up out of proportion. And when I recorded it, I was feeling like I wanted to put a few holes in my old self, give that self a slap round the face." | ||
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