43 reviews of North

[johnfoyle]

Using the database of Costello Fan Forum here
are 43 reviews of North

Bright Blue Times
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=511

Q
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=519

GQ
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=538

R4U
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=544

Independent(London)

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=582

Times(London)

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=588

Guardian
(London)

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=586

Daily
Telegraph(London)

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=598

Sunday Times
(London)

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=608

Observer(London)

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=610

LA Citybeat

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=578

Time Out
(London)

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=627

BBC

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=622

Irish Times

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=641

Rolling Stone

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=691

USA Today

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=696

Humo

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=699

New York Post
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=697

MSNBC
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=702

IHT
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=716

Yahoo
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=715

Fox News
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=726

The Onion
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=710

Dallas Morning News
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=727

LA Times
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=785

The Word
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=790

AMG
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=829

Washington Times
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=803

New Republic
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=835

Amazon
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=834

Uncut
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=840

Cleveland Free Times
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=836

The Slate
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=848

Winnipeg Sun
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=862

Jazz Times
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=867

Musicians News
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=874

Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=873

Musicom
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=868

Fort Worth Star Telegram
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=924

Toronto Star
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=925

Salon.com
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=938

mxdwn.com
http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=970

Mojo
http://elviscostellofans.com/phpBB2/vie ... 5670#15670

[Jackson Monk]

You are a damn saint Mr Foyle!

[laughingcrow]

Nice one John....you are probably the world's biggest EC fan mate.

[verbal gymnastics]

You mean I've got to click onto the links individually? Jeez!

Thanks, as ever, John.

[johnfoyle]

We missed a date - the 10th anniversary of the start of the writing of North .

Elvis wrote in the note with the Rhino reissue of KOA -

I last saw Ray Brown hauling his double bass across the lobby of the Benson Hotel, Portland, Oregon, on his way to a gig in May 2002. I hadn’t seen him since a couple years after these sessions, when he had startled an audience of jazz buffs at “Ronnie Scott’s” club in London by a giving a shout out to me from the bandstand.

We talked for a few minutes about a mutual friend, a former protégé of his, who since became my wife. We then went off to our respective shows. Two months later Ray passed away in his sleep after a game of golf. The next time I was at the Benson, in the autumn of the same year, I found a piano in my room and began writing the songs for the album North.

That is , surely, the September 24th 2002 show in Portland -

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... 4_Portland

To , belatedly, mark the occasion , why not have a glance through some of the reviews the album got on it's release in 2003.

[the_platypus]

Maybe this is the appropriate place to post this. Here's a recent look at North by this board's own Kevin Davis, who was kind enough to contribute this piece for my blog: http://jorgefarah.com/2014/03/17/everyi ... vin-davis/

[Jack of All Parades]

"Dim the lights and have a listen."- indeed. Quite an evocative appreciation. Thank you for sharing with the rest of us.

[johnfoyle]

Great to see such an articulate appreciation of North. All I can add to it is that it works even better on vinyl, a classic case of the pause between the 'dark' side one and the 'bright' side two really enhancing the albums message.