Record Mirror, October 9, 1982: Difference between revisions
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The rockers are perfunctory, the tragedies as essential as blood. Standing without a guitar in customary grey suit, Costello takes a song like "...And In Every Home" and plays with every note, until, like a Van Morrison, he has found all the life in the song and made it sweat. | The rockers are perfunctory, the tragedies as essential as blood. Standing without a guitar in customary grey suit, Costello takes a song like "...And In Every Home" and plays with every note, until, like a Van Morrison, he has found all the life in the song and made it sweat. | ||
Abandoning any real build-up, Costello at Brighton is amongst the loved ones and his confidence glows. He pulls songs out of the hat like a conjuror and each is greeted like a long lost friend. He may just have released 15 new songs and a single, but that doesn't stop him throwing in a brand new gem like "Every Day I Write A Book," surely single material. | Abandoning any real build-up, Costello at Brighton is amongst the loved ones and his confidence glows. He pulls songs out of the hat like a conjuror and each is greeted like a long lost friend. He may just have released [[Imperial Bedroom|15 new songs]] and a [[Single: From Head To Toe|single]], but that doesn't stop him throwing in a brand new gem like "Every Day I Write A Book," surely single material. | ||
Only the angry Elvis has withered and died. The new Elvis is the most perceptive and profound singer/songwriter in Britain, a man in his time. Heaven preserve us. Do we deserve him? | Only the angry Elvis has withered and died. The new Elvis is the most perceptive and profound singer/songwriter in Britain, a man in his time. Heaven preserve us. Do we deserve him? |