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<center><h3>Elvis hits the bullseye</h3></center> | <center><h3> Elvis hits the bullseye </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Jay Saporita </center> | <center> Jay Saporita </center> | ||
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I never saw Buddy Holly perform but somehow the gaunt frame and awkward stance of the young man on the album cover | I never saw Buddy Holly perform but somehow the gaunt frame and awkward stance of the young man on the album cover — the obtrusive black-framed glasses, owlish on a Christopher Robin face, coupled with an obvious gift for writing songs that rivals most contemporaries — evokes an image of what Holly must have been like; uniquely talented but glaringly out of place among the glittering personae of his peers. | ||
The young man on the album cover is Elvis Costello. His real name | The young man on the album cover is Elvis Costello. His real name isn't Elvis, of course, it's Declan, but the nickname fits well for Costello is the kind of tough street-kid-become-rock and roller that ''the'' Elvis portrayed in ''Jailhouse Rock''. | ||
Here's Costello, in a ''Melody Maker'' interview explaining his pursuit of a recording contract: "… I went around for nearly a year with demo tapes … and it was always the same response. 'We can't hear the words..' There aren't any singles.' Idiots. Those tapes were just voice and guitar demos. I didn't have enough money to do anything with a band. It was just a lack of imagination on the part of those people at the record companies. I felt as if I was bashing my head against a brick wall. Those people just weren't prepared to listen to the songs. It's a terrible position to be in. You start thinking you're mad. You listen to the radio and you watch the T.V. and you hear a lot of fuckin' rubbish. And all the time you know that you're capable of producing something infinitely better. | |||
"But I never lost faith. I'm convinced in my own talent … I wasn't going up to these people meekly and saying, 'Look, with your help and a bit of polishing up and with all your expertise and knowledge of the world of music we might have a moderate success on our hands.' I was going in thinking: 'You're a bunch of fuckin' idiots who don't know what you're doing. I'm bringing you a lot of good songs, why don't you go ahead and fuckin' well record them?' They didn't seem to understand that kind of approach." | |||
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{{tags}}[[Buddy Holly]] {{-}} [[Elvis Presley]] {{-}} [[Stiff Records]] {{-}} [[Melody Maker, June 25, 1977|Melody Maker]] {{-}} [[My Aim Is True]] {{-}} [[Less Than Zero]] {{-}} [[(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes]] {{-}} [[I'm Not Angry]] {{-}} [[Miracle Man]] | {{tags}}[[Buddy Holly]] {{-}} [[Elvis Presley]] {{-}} [[Stiff Records]] {{-}} [[Melody Maker, June 25, 1977|Melody Maker]] {{-}} [[My Aim Is True]] {{-}} [[Less Than Zero]] {{-}} [[(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes]] {{-}} [[I'm Not Angry]] {{-}} [[Miracle Man]] | ||
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'''Aquarian Weekly, | '''Aquarian Weekly, No. 189, December 14-21, 1977 | ||
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[[Jay Saporita]] profiles Elvis following the release of ''[[My Aim Is True]]''. | [[Jay Saporita]] profiles Elvis following the release of ''[[My Aim Is True]]''. | ||
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Includes a full-page ad for ''[[My Aim Is True]]'' and concert dates [[Concert 1977-12-13 New York (early)|December 13]]-[[Concert 1977-12-14 New York (early)|14]], Bottom Line, New{{nb}}York. | |||
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<small>Cover.</small> | <br><small>Cover.</small> | ||
[[image:1977-12-14 Aquarian Weekly page 49.jpg| | <small>Advertisement.</small><br> | ||
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