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<center><h3> Elvis Costello: Between a rock and a hard place </h3></center> | <center><h3> Elvis Costello: Between a rock and a hard place </h3></center> | ||
<center> New Wave rocker Costello makes the transition to pop </center> | |||
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JFK Stadium seemed a very unlikely location for an Elvis Costello concert. [[The Beatles]] played the joint in '66, and [[the Rolling Stones]] kicked off their American tour there last September. But when I think of JFK Stadium, I think of Tunney beating Dempsey in the rain in 1926, or the clock running out on Navy with the ball on the Army 2-yard line in 1963, or the deafening finale of the Flyers' Stanley Cup parade in 1975. | |||
Even in more intimate surroundings, like the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, Costello is not the world's most charismatic performer. At the Tower, in [[Concert 1981-01-29 Upper Darby|January '81]], he was not much to look at from Row 9. He rarely moved his feet or spoke to the crowd, and he didn't even bother looking at the crowd most of the night. | |||
What would he do to keep the attention of 90,000 people at JFK? | |||
Dance on top of the amps, like Bruce Springsteen? Blast the crowd with a fire hose, like Mick Jagger? Bash his guitar into smithereens, like Pete Townshend? Do a Chuck Berry duck walk across the stage while the Attractions hammered out "The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes?" | |||
The location seemed especially odd considering the sort of music Elvis produced on his latest album, | |||
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