Relatively Insignificant EC Stuff. . .

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Caught a quick glimpse of Ron Sexsmith on BBC Andrew Married show Sunday morning with Steve on piano
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I saw that. Steve Nieve looked like he was thinning on top. They got a rousing round of applause from David Cameron I noticed
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Saxophonist Andy Sheppard has covered I Want To Vanish

http://andysheppard.co.uk/

The other non-original in the programme is Elvis Costello’s “I Want To Vanish”. “Michel Benita introduced me to this song and I fell in love with it. I also recorded and toured with Elvis some years ago in John Harle’s Terror and Magnificence project.”
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Marilyn Monroe, This Year's Model 1953
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Nice write up celebrating the 21st anniversary of the release of Brutal Youth:

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB3/
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My brother was in Morrison's in Peterborough yesterday and they were playing 'Moods for Moderns'
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That is incredible! I just logged in to say I heard Mood for Moderns in the Halifax Morrison's! It wasn't a single and can remember it being on a compilation so maybe Morrison have a maverick music compiler!
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A local Bagel place seems to play a lot of Elvis, deep cut stuff, Sleep Of The Just etc.. I got talking to the staff and it turned out it was just a matter of whoever plugs in their iphone into the system and one of them is a fan etc. and has a lot of Elvis on her player. I , of course, immediately told her she had a good chance of bearing my children - which , puzzlingly, got a funny look.
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I use my forum moniker for not only this forum, but also for other forums. I also use it for some junk email. I have often spelled it out for people and they have said it aloud..."a rope leash"...but no one has ever said "O hey like from that song!"

I know it's pretty obscure but it would be so cool if someone just started singing it or something when they heard those words. Ah! A soul mate!

Sorry, johnfoyle's post inspired this...I'm weird I know.
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I was manager of a shopping centre for 7 years. All our music came from a satellite. I would guess supermarkets have their own station where whatever store you went into would be playing the same music at the same time. The co op has its own radio station.

We had a pretty good cross section of music but Elvis was very rare. In the 7 years I would say I heard Oliver's Army a handful of times and Everyday I Write The Book maybe 20. I cant remember hearing anything else.
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I find it interesting...forgive me if I am mistaken, but you are in England, correct? I think Every Day I Write the Book is the only Elvis song I have ever heard in an elevator or retail store here in the USA, and I have probably heard it about ten times.

It must be a conspiracy. Didn't Elvis say recently he hated this song?

I did quite a few jobs in Walgreen's stores a few years back. I don't know how the employees tolerate the piped-in pabulum.
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Yes I am in England.
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A review of GCW that some of us might have missed has just been added to wiki -

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... tober_1984


There's not much you need to say about Elvis Costello and the Attractions' Goodbye Cruel World (Columbia). It's great. Buy it. It may be the best so far from ol' four-eyes. It's thick with synth funk and features harmonies by Daryl Hall. There are 13 tunes here, and not one misses.
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Gideon Coe - BBC 6 Music - Elvis Costello live at Barrowlands 2004

Starts at 2:19:08. 29 days left to listen. 3 songs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05t3c4s

I'm assuming it's from this session. Does anyone have the full broadcast to share?

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... 2004-11-27
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I've heard Elvis twice this morning at Caesar's Casino in Atlantic City:

Pump It Up in the casino and Veronica at Gordon Ramsey's Pub & Grill.
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Janice Long played The Other Side Of Summer the other night and said she was looking forward to seeing him in Liverpool next month
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In July 1996 Elvis paid tribute to Irish journalist Bill Graham , who died , aged 44 , in May 1996

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... y_24,_1996

"It was terrible about Bill," says Costello, his speech pattern slowing for the first time in an hour. "I was away at the time. I came back and I was shocked to hear it. He was a good guy, one of the best. He knew things, you never had to explain stuff to him.

Over the last few weeks I've got around to posting on the wiki site a lot of the features and interviews Bill did with Elvis. Besides whatever album Elvis was promoting , the range of topics and matters covered is fascinating.

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... ill_Graham
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The Great Songs–Elvis Costello’s “Motel Matches”

http://www.thelefortreport.com/blog/201 ... l-matches/
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Caring, sharing Elvis

http://www.dimblebycancercare.org/news/ ... -of-london

A fundraiser’s chance encounter with one of her idols on the streets of London
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That one made my day, Mr. Foyle. Sweet. Lucky father to have such a daughter who would spot him on the street.
"....there's a merry song that starts in 'I' and ends in 'You', as many famous pop songs do....'
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From today's NY Times Magazine article about eyeglasses as a fashion statement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/magaz ... .html?_r=0

A nearsighted friend of mine has begun setting his acetate frames aside in self-contempt, not wanting to be part of a demographic that would have him as a member. But he wears them when coaching his son’s Little League team, an obligation that brings him into contact with adults from other cultural niches. They’ve got him pegged on the basis of his specs. Imagine a rival coach who has emerged from the white shell of an S.U.V. and a long gestation in an old school of machismo, and who says, with a socially acceptable jeer: “You know who you look like? Elvis Costello.” It’s certainly a more elegant formulation than “Die, yuppie scum.”

This picture is used in the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/magaz ... 0003729457
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