Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Several reports mentioned that Kaine adopted "Blame It on Cain" as a sort of joking theme song, for when he was getting beaten up on by the opposition or in the media.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/Eggs-Over-Easy-who-hatched-pub-rock-get-8425015.php?cmpid=twitter-premium [...] A video featuring tributes from Nick Lowe, Huey Lewis, Loudon Wainwright and others was posted on YouTube. Elvis Costello and Dan Hicks were also Eggs fans. I assume this is it: ...

i could later get his exact wording from my SONY, but he seemed to state that there will be ONE FULL DISC including 5/6 demos from their writing together for the l.p. as well as 6/8 live performances (solo or the few shows played live together, i can not say.) CAN HE REALLY BE ACCURATE AS TO AN ENT...

Thanks, John. I suppose it's possible that the building was accepting tenets before it was officially opened. It's also possible that sign on the front contains a typo in the date. :wink: More seriously, real estate websites list this building as having been built in 1976. FWIW, in my experience, th...

EC has openly said he dislikes "She" when asked (and refusing to) play it at gigs in the US, where is wasn't any kind of hit. Would it be super-mean of me to say that Mr. ecsongbysong is a much better Twitteriste than he is a (multi-thousand word) bloggist? Inverse-proportionally better, e...

Continuing with the Heritage Trail virtual tour... The entrance area - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/charleshardin/04March200710.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/charleshardin/04March20079.jpg I want to give proper, if belated, respect to John Foyle for doing what no biographer of...

This could have been a massive hit if he'd made it a slightly more conventional love song lyric - one to rival Alison. Alas, it wasn't to be. Apparently it's about someone hallucinating, and it's meant to be the crazy visions of a madman. Not a "madman", but rather a falling-down drunk, l...

Does that mean that the other guys in the band here are Flip City? - first and only live footage? No, this was probably before Flip City existed. I think it must have been just after EC moved back to London. In any case, in EC explains in his memoir, this was filmed the same day the jingle was reco...

I hate to say "I told you so"... Actually, that's not true. I sorta love to say "I told you so".

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One more thing: Dylan, McCartney, Paul Simon, to name a few, continue to record "albums"--does that make them hopelessly out of touch? Dylan, McCartney, and let's add Springsteen, are part of the tiny uppermost echelon of the music business that still makes money from selling recorded mus...

Um... --because he's a singer, songwriter, and RECORDING ARTIST? Only two of those gigs still make money for him. Actually, maybe only one. In any case, the last one is not, by itself, a viable business venture anymore for anybody except the "one-percent" of the music business, which does...

I've probably asked this question before, but since it's still nagging me, I'll throw it out again.... I'm glad that EC continues to perform into (as of August) his sixties, but is it too much to ask, hope, that he'll simply record an album with the Imposters (the last one was Momufuku--over NINE y...

More: http://www.playbill.com/article/elvis-costello-39-s-face-in-the-crowd-musical-gets-ny-reading Elvis Costello's Face in the Crowd Musical Gets NY Reading BY ROBERT VIAGAS JUN 15, 2016 He's reportedly seeking Hugh Jackman for the Broadway lead. Grammy-winning Punk and New Wave songwriter Elvis C...

Maybe this is a term of art that doesn't translate outside the Greater New York area, but my understanding is that "the book" in this context means exactly what you'd expect a playwright to provide for a musical play: the script. You can't really say Ruhl has no experience writing the book...

It seems worthwhile to transcribe EC's acceptance speech for posterity before the YouTube videos disappear: I want to thank the Songwriters Hall of Fame for inviting me to stand in this extraordinary company. Take just one look at the list of former chairman and current chairman on the letterheading...

On a slightly more serious note... Echoing what John Foyle said at the very beginning of this thread about how seeing EC's Whitton home gave him a new perspective on EC's drive to get his career started, the things he wrote about his early adult life in UM&DI -- and, to a much lesser extent, the...

Ha-ha, VG! :D I actually refrained from posting some of the other photos I found online, like Google Street View shots and the interiors of homes for sale or rent, because (non-famous!) people do live there, after all. In fact, someone named Burgoyne still lives on EC's first wife's old street, or d...

These days, those of us who can't trek John's EC heritage trail in person can do it online. I decided to google the street where EC both grew up and spent much of his early adult life and, lo and behold, I found a number of the units are currently on the market (at prices Ross's Joe Loss Orchestra s...

More of EC's acceptance speech here: http://americansongwriter.com/2016/06/2016-songwriters-hall-fame-awards-recap/ Elvis Costello cited his mother’s advice that no fear or harm would come to him if he could put his thoughts into words and song, which provided the inspiration for his anti-war breakt...

Nice insight on "Baseball Heroes," there. Thank you, Mr. Gentleman. Revisiting EC's available pre-fame output after reading UM&DI has been interesting, not only for the surprising number of autobiographical references in even the very early lyrics but also for the way it illustrates t...

I think they skew toward non-performing songwriters, hence the many unfamiliar names, but, yeah, I noticed some real cheezballs in there.

Ever since I read about the existence of, never mind heard, the song " Baseball Heroes ", I've kind of wondered why EC would have so much interest in American baseball -- an interested never to be evinced again -- as to write a whole song about it. Of course, UM&DI solved that little m...

Well, sometimes the more complicated hypothesis turns out to be the correct one. I'm still sticking with the idea that all three photos were taken on the same day. Unless EC carried that little white comb with him everywhere in those days.

The door he's standing in front of in the pic (by Plummer) that I posted the link to appears to be the same one behind him in the head-scratching pic we are trying to identify. So you're suggesting EC was photographed at the same location, wearing different combinations of the same clothes, with the...

I can't seem to embed pictures here, but surely this photo, also by Barry Plummer, is from the same session as the two above: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/File:1979-03-00_Sounds_(Germany)_photo_01_bp.jpg Note the shirt and comb from the first photo, but the jacket from the second. So...