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<center><h3> "Blair was a bigger f**ker than | <center><h3> Elvis Costello </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' "Blair was a bigger f**ker than Thatcher ever was" </center> | |||
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'''Elvis Costello on free gigs, politics and his new album with The Roots | |||
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''You and Ray Davies just played a free gig for 60,000 fans in Hyde Park after Elton John fell ill… | |||
Yes, I haven't actually seen Elton but I hope he's OK. I agree with free stuff. It's summer. Take a ball down to the park and listen to some music. I also saw it as a subtle act of insurgency. Elton has millions of fans. I wanted to nick a few of them. | |||
''You've also just finished your 31st album, Wise Up Ghost, with The Roots. You've done rock, pop, country, classical. Are you trying to prove something? | |||
Not at all. The Roots are an incredible band and the house band for (US chat show) ''The Jimmy Fallon Show''. I was invited on the show and it turns out Quest (Ahmir "?uestlove” Thompson, Roots leader) knows some of my music better than I do. We ended up | |||
recording and it turned into an album. | |||
''You wrote "Watching The Detectives" drinking an entire jar of instant coffee while listening to the first Clash album. Is your creative process still the same? | |||
Yes. After a period of being inspired by stronger stuff I am back round to coffee. Better shit now, obviously. I have a machine. But it's my only vice. Why do you think that song ¡s so jerky? I drank a ''lot'' of coffee before nailing that chorus. | |||
''You sang [anti-Thatcher song] "Tramp The Dirt Down" at Glastonbury last month. Is it still relevant? | |||
I think it is. Thatcher mutated into Blair. He was a bigger fucker than she ever was. I mean it. History will judge him. She started a little war (the Falklands). He started one that still hasn't ended. And the useless slimeballs we have now are very much hers and his children… | |||
''On "Tramp The Dirt Down" you hope to see Thatcher die. Were you triumphant? | |||
I don't wish death on anyone. There was Thatcher, the person, and then there were her ideas. My father died of Parkinson's-related dementia a year and a half ago. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy So no, not triumphant at all. But at the same time there are people who do things in politics which are repulsive to me. | |||
''You performed "Penny Lane" with Paul McCartney for Barack Obama at the White House not along ago. How was that? | |||
I don't agree with everything Obama does either but he comes across as a decent man and obviously he has great taste in music. Me, Paul, Jack White and the Jonas Brothers were there. We had a US Marine playing the "Penny Lane" horn parts. We sounded alright. | |||
''Have you ever told Paul McCartney you once sold your copy of A Hard Day's Night to pay a gas bill? | |||
I've known Paul for 30 years and I have never told him that. It's true, though But when I signed my first record deal with Stiff I used the money to buy it back,. And you know what? I don't think I was ever happier in life than strumming along to that record. | |||
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'''''Wise Up Ghost'' is out 16 September. | |||
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'''Q, No. 326, September 2013 | '''Q, No. 326, September 2013 | ||
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Elvis Costello | ''Q magazine'' interviews Elvis Costello ahead of the release ''[[Wise Up Ghost]]''. | ||
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