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<center><h3> Hello, Goodbye </h3></center> | <center><h3> Hello, Goodbye </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Bruce Thomas and Elvis Costello </center> | <center>''' Bruce Thomas and Elvis Costello </center> | ||
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<center> Johnny Black </center> | <center> Johnny Black </center> | ||
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'''First they shared a band, rooms and an outlook on life. Then the harmony gave way to glares of "shit-eating death." | |||
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June 5, 1977 — I answered an [[Melody Maker, June 4, 1977|advert]] in the ''Melody Maker'' saying "Rocking pop combo needs bass player." I rang up Stiff Records and this woman answered. I heard this voice in the background saving, "Ask him who he likes." I said, "Steely Dan and Graham Parker" and the voice said, "Get rid of him." And that was Elvis. | June 5, 1977 — I answered an [[Melody Maker, June 4, 1977|advert]] in the ''Melody Maker'' saying "Rocking pop combo needs bass player." I rang up Stiff Records and this woman answered. I heard this voice in the background saving, "Ask him who he likes." I said, "Steely Dan and Graham Parker" and the voice said, "Get rid of him." And that was Elvis. | ||
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The audition was in Putney. They were in brothel creepers and drainpipes, I was in earth shoes and flares. 1 got a lot of disparaging looks. My first impressions of Elvis were of a very intense guy trying hard not to make eye contact. Stand-offish, aloof, very sweaty. The first album wasn't out yet, but I'd bought the singles and learned to play "Alison," "Red Shoes," "Less Than Zero" pretty well, but pretended I was learning them. It was a good ploy until they started doing songs I'd never heard before and I couldn't get them quite so quickly. | The audition was in Putney. They were in brothel creepers and drainpipes, I was in earth shoes and flares. 1 got a lot of disparaging looks. My first impressions of Elvis were of a very intense guy trying hard not to make eye contact. Stand-offish, aloof, very sweaty. The first album wasn't out yet, but I'd bought the singles and learned to play "Alison," "Red Shoes," "Less Than Zero" pretty well, but pretended I was learning them. It was a good ploy until they started doing songs I'd never heard before and I couldn't get them quite so quickly. | ||
Elvis and I got on really well. We shared a room for ages. We were very similar in a lot of respects, quick-minded, fairly intense. I remember sitting in a restaurant in Amsterdam | Elvis and I got on really well. We shared a room for ages. We were very similar in a lot of respects, quick-minded, fairly intense. I remember sitting in a restaurant in Amsterdam working our way through a bottle of 1961 Haut Briand. I was going On about how, "What England needs now is a new William Blake." Elvis said, "What England needs now is a new Jeremy Bentham." I knew then we had something in common. | ||
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September 15, 1996 — It's often said I was sacked for the things I'd written in my book ''The Big Wheel'', but the real wedge between us was when Cait from The Pogues came on the scene. We used to call her Beryl because she looked like Beryl The Peril in the ''Beano'', long and gawky. Then one day they were sitting on the bus together and were an item, and he was glaring at me with this shit-eating death look. | September 15, 1996 — It's often said I was sacked for the things I'd written in my book ''The Big Wheel'', but the real wedge between us was when Cait from The Pogues came on the scene. We used to call her Beryl because she looked like Beryl The Peril in the ''Beano'', long and gawky. Then one day they were sitting on the bus together and were an item, and he was glaring at me with this shit-eating death look. | ||
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