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| '''[[TV 2020-10-09 Guy Garvey:From The Vaults|2020-10-09]] | TV

...he army but at least if I did something would be happening in my worthless life. ...now but by 1979 Costello was set to rule the world. After the glossy power pop misogyny, he had changed direction for the third time in 3 LPs for his most

*[[City Life, May 4, 1989|City Life]] *[[Classic Pop, October 2018|Classic Pop]]

...the lyrics, I couldn’t bring myself to invent an honest narrative for the life I was living at the time. As a song, “Accidents” has a romantic sound, ...next to a school. A bunch of girls came out and recognized us from TV or a pop magazine. They wanted to know what we were doing there. They came into the

...ch we could agree, among them the “Berlin” records by David Bowie and Iggy Pop, I hear a reference to a track from “Low" in the background voices and tr ...m too many hours listening to the second side of Bowie’s “''Low''” or Iggy Pop’s “Mass Production” but as a member of the audience at Bruce Springst

<center>''' RC revisits a classic music TV or film moment </center> ''Alright Now!'' made by Tyne Tees TV (and named after the Free classic of the same name) was no exception. The b

...make me a lot of money at this stage,” he says. “But it’s about a sign of life and a connection to an audience. What I’ve had to come to terms with is t “It’s a working life that I’m doing.”

...d inclusion of my personal all-time favorite Elvis Costello song: "My Dark Life." Costello played "My Dark Life" in concert only one time in 1996, in San Francisco, and that performance w

...the next rocker that should do a spoken word and song stage show about his life. ...nfidential" is the kind of musical morality play you would expect from the pop master.

| Life On Mars? | Life Preserver

...ay was by far, the main avenue to success and if you weren’t aiming for AM pop hits, FM rock radio – once called progressive and later (when it tightene ...ing relationship, obviously with some very celebrated people, and one that life holds onto. I think I’ve had a lot of time to do my own poetry work as we

| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Lowe Pure Pop For Now People] | Coffee And TV

...mmer" — a song about the dignity of labour. He was a working man his whole life. My grandfathers, one of them lay wounded in a ditch for five days in Franc ...he door to a world we hadn't yet entered. She offered the sense of a freer life that we were not being trained for. Bear in mind, I went to secondary moder

...here" and "Angel From Montgomery" traveled across musical styles to become pop hits for other artists at a time when unique songwriting voices ranging fro ...te and speak in song about the inequities, cruelties and the loneliness of life. I think it was more in a spirit of hope that John joined Emmylou Harris, N

* Mayim Bialik, star of the tv show 'Blossom' appeared on this show and mentioned that she is a big EC fan '''Backberner''', ABC TV Australia, 2002-11-08:

...teacher is not committed, and she would talk about other things in her own life. It was like glimpsing a grown-up world that we would one day enter." In London, the MacManus family lived a humble life, but one in which music was key. His mother worked in a record shop on Oxfo

...lled "(a demo version)" but sounds like a TV performance, possibly from UK TV's ''Top Of The Pops'') ...6 [[All This Useless Beauty (song)|All This Useless Beauty]] (live solo on TV, OS:''Live From 6A: Great Musical Moments From Late Night With Conan O'Brie

...heroes from Paul McCartney to Burt Bacharach, guested on a whole bunch of TV shows, and even filled in for Letterman once. Just the fact he has 32 album ...second run. I was afraid if I went along I'd think, "Why did I carry that TV set around the world when I could've just stood on the stage and tell stori

:"It's ''[[Painted From Memory]]'' [1998] and ''Taken From Life'', which is a collection of songs that Burt and I wrote over the last 15 ye ...a]] conducting a 30-piece orchestra. So the bookends for this ''Taken From Life'' record are newly recorded. [[The Imposters]] and I recorded a third song,

...th the strings of The Brodsky Quartet (''The Juliet Letters'') to eloquent pop sophistication with Burt Bacharach (''Painted From Memory''); from vibrant ...a kind of insurance, really, to have someone with that experience. I think pop musicians, for want of a better word, run the risk of trying to be too ambi

...rd Herrmann." However, I needed all of the Attractions to work at speed of life for "Lipstick Vogue." "Pump It Up" was scrawled on a hotel fire-escape in N '''Recorded at a troubled time, Costello's fifth took aim at his pop contemporaries

This wiki page was originally derived from a biography by the "Pope Of Pop", Paul Inglis, and is edited and maintained by members of this community.<b Declan Patrick MacManus began having the time of his life on Wednesday, the 25th of August, 1954. Declan was born at St Mary's Hospit

...eak, droll observations and naked confessions, screeching rock and stately pop, “Man Out Of Time” is the emotional centerpiece and master stroke on '' “''For his private wife and kids somehow/Real life becomes a rumour'',” Costello sings, acknowledging the innocent victims o

...use of the futility of playing live but also to mark their transition from pop sensations to artists, making the most of studio technology to expand their ...ressive rock took the album format to the edge of pomposity, eschewing the pop single as puerile and ephemeral. Punk blasted that conceit: the terse, thre