RAM, June 16, 1978

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Elvis — This year's definitive interview


Nick Kent

Elvis Costello is taking his guest-spot on Top Of The Pops in his usual sardonic stride.

Here in the proverbial lion's den, Costello and the Attractions are sequestered together off to one corner, waiting for their turn on the adjacent stage where they will in due course perform Tip For The Top "Chelsea," while casually observing the rest of those similarly lucky popsters going through their paces. Maybe it's the virtually surreal quotient of ludicrous pop cliches being blithely trotted out on the other twin stages that keeps the Costello collective so near-languidly amused.

Costello himself views the whole pantomime with a detachment that arguably typifies his recently-discovered professionalism. He's adopted his classic stance for the occasion — the Fender Jazzmaster cradled in his arms, the legs slanted somewhat askew as per usual — but the stance has become totally unselfconscious and his manner is strictly casual.


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RAM, No. 86, June 16, 1978


Nick Kent interviews Elvis Costello.

(excerpts from New Musical Express, March 25, 1978.)

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