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'''C'est un journal australien - " | '''C'est un journal australien - "The Australian" - qui l'annonce dans son édition d'aujourd'hui sous la plume d'Iain Shedden."Elvis Costello a décidé d'arrêter de publier des albums".''' | ||
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Au cours de sa longue carrière (entamée en pleine tourmente punk, en 1977), Elvis Costello a publié la bagatelle de 32 albums studio. Dont plusieurs chefs d'oeuvres ("''This Year's Model''", "''Get Happy''", "''King of America''", "''Blood and Chocolate''", "''Brutal Youth''", "''All this Useless Beauty''"...). | Au cours de sa longue carrière (entamée en pleine tourmente punk, en 1977), Elvis Costello a publié la bagatelle de 32 albums studio. Dont plusieurs chefs d'oeuvres ("''This Year's Model''", "''Get Happy''", "''King of America''", "''Blood and Chocolate''", "''Brutal Youth''", "''All this Useless Beauty''"...). | ||
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On peut imaginer qu'il continuera de rééditer régulièrement son back catalogue et de sortir des lives inédits. | On peut imaginer qu'il continuera de rééditer régulièrement son back catalogue et de sortir des lives inédits. | ||
Cette année, Elvis Costello & The Imposters (le nom de son groupe historique | Cette année, Elvis Costello & The Imposters (le nom de son groupe historique The Attractions a été modifié après le remplacement d'un de ses membres historiques, le bassiste Bruce Thomas) repartent en tournée mondiale. | ||
Ils donneront notamment une série de concerts aux USA avec un dispositif qui avait fait sensation au milieu des années 80: "The Spinning Songbook", également appelé "The Wheel", est une grande roue de loterie sur laquelle figurent les titres d'une quarantaine de chansons. Des spectateurs sont invités à monter sur scène, à tourner la roue pour tirer au sort des chansons. Les spectateurs sont ensuite invités à danser dans une "go-go cage" ou à s'installer au comptoir d'un bar sur scène, pendant que le groupe joue sous leurs yeux les chansons désignées par le hasard ! | Ils donneront notamment une série de concerts aux USA avec un dispositif qui avait fait sensation au milieu des années 80: "The Spinning Songbook", également appelé "The Wheel", est une grande roue de loterie sur laquelle figurent les titres d'une quarantaine de chansons. Des spectateurs sont invités à monter sur scène, à tourner la roue pour tirer au sort des chansons. Les spectateurs sont ensuite invités à danser dans une "go-go cage" ou à s'installer au comptoir d'un bar sur scène, pendant que le groupe joue sous leurs yeux les chansons désignées par le hasard ! | ||
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Pour ceux qui lisent l'anglais, voici [[The Australian, February 7, 2011|l'article du "Australian"]]: | Pour ceux qui lisent l'anglais, voici [[The Australian, February 7, 2011|l'article du "Australian"]]: | ||
"Elvis Costello has retired from making albums. The acclaimed English songwriter, due to visit Australia with his band The Imposters in April, told The Australian today that the album format had reached "the end of the line" and that his album from last year, National Ransom, would be his last. | "Elvis Costello has retired from making albums. The acclaimed English songwriter, due to visit Australia with his band The Imposters in April, told ''The Australian'' today that the album format had reached "the end of the line" and that his album from last year, ''National Ransom'', would be his last. | ||
"There are no more albums" said Costello. "That's done now. I think that we've come to the end of the line with albums. There will be new songs and new places to put them and ways to release them, but I don't have a recording contract and I'm not seeking one." | "There are no more albums" said Costello. "That's done now. I think that we've come to the end of the line with albums. There will be new songs and new places to put them and ways to release them, but I don't have a recording contract and I'm not seeking one." | ||
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Aside from his recording career, Costello has become popular in recent years as a television host on his music chat show Spectacle, which screen in Australia on the ABC. However, he doesn't plan to make any more of those either. "Like recording, we could come back to the idea," he said. | Aside from his recording career, Costello has become popular in recent years as a television host on his music chat show Spectacle, which screen in Australia on the ABC. However, he doesn't plan to make any more of those either. "Like recording, we could come back to the idea," he said. | ||
The singer and songwriter has made 32 studio albums in a career that began with My Aim Is True in 1977. Among his best-known collections are ''Armed Forces'', ''King of America'' and ''Blood and Chocolate''. He has released material in a variety of genres, from pop to jazz, and with collaborators as diverse as Burt Bacharach and the Brodsky Quartet. | The singer and songwriter has made 32 studio albums in a career that began with ''My Aim Is True'' in 1977. Among his best-known collections are ''Armed Forces'', ''King of America'' and ''Blood and Chocolate''. He has released material in a variety of genres, from pop to jazz, and with collaborators as diverse as Burt Bacharach and the Brodsky Quartet. | ||
Costello has hinted before that he would stop recording (and performing), as long ago as the 1990s, but he has been prolific as a recording artist since then. He's emphatic, however, about ending his affair with albums. | Costello has hinted before that he would stop recording (and performing), as long ago as the 1990s, but he has been prolific as a recording artist since then. He's emphatic, however, about ending his affair with albums. | ||
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"It's just not what I want to do. And I made a really good one to end on." | "It's just not what I want to do. And I made a really good one to end on." | ||
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