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<center><h3> Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet </h3></center> | <center><h3> Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet </h3></center> | ||
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Few modern songwriters have had a career with the scope of Elvis Costello. Although he's still best known for the spiky punk of his early hits, he's explored — and most importantly succeeded in — a dizzying array of styles including country and classical music. | Few modern songwriters have had a career with the scope of Elvis Costello. Although he's still best known for the spiky punk of his early hits, he's explored — and most importantly succeeded in — a dizzying array of styles including country and classical music. | ||
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And then came a song which still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck, "Shipbuilding." Costello's emotive critique of the Falklands conflict is as good a protest song as you'll ever hear. You could hear a pin drop and it was the clear stand-out moment in the set. | And then came a song which still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck, "Shipbuilding." Costello's emotive critique of the Falklands conflict is as good a protest song as you'll ever hear. You could hear a pin drop and it was the clear stand-out moment in the set. | ||
By encore time, he was wandering around the front of the stage unamplified, delivering a new song and having fun with the old 30s standard " | By encore time, he was wandering around the front of the stage unamplified, delivering a new song and having fun with the old 30s standard "P.S. I Love You." | ||
The hardcore Costello fans will have been in their element and even the most occasional admirer must have been won over by one of the most charismatic and mesmerising singer-songwriters of this, or any, generation. | The hardcore Costello fans will have been in their element and even the most occasional admirer must have been won over by one of the most charismatic and mesmerising singer-songwriters of this, or any, generation. | ||
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