Elvis Costello Fan Forum

oldhamer wrote:Does anyone else think that "So Young" is one of Elvis' best covers?

I've been addicted to that track for the last four weeks.

Battered Old Bird seems to have been given fairly short shrift in the overviews of Elvis' work I've read (and I'm reasonably new to his stuff, got into him last year through his performance of 'Delivery Man' tracks on 'Later with Jools Holland', so I'm at that exciting stage when you start to become...

The Steve Martin/Michael Caine movie 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' was originally conceived as a film for David Bowie and Mick Jagger to star in together

Q magazine is now so insubstantial you can pretty much read it cover to cover on a 40 minute train journey. Included in that list is the sub-column 'Rescued! Five albums that aren't as bad as you think' which includes Wings' 'Band On The Run', an album that's surely always been widely regarded as on...

There's so much on 'Get Happy!!' that's comparitively overlooked because there's such a lot on there. I definitely agree on 'Secondary Modern' and 'Opportunity' (especially the 'compliment collector/funeral director' couplet), and I've also been playing 'Motel Matches' and the cover of Joe Cammileri...