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<center> | <center><h3> Elvis hits all the right notes</h3></center> | ||
<center>''' | <center>'''Elvis Costello & The Imposters ''' / Usher Hall, Edinburgh </center> | ||
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Declan McManus has always been provocative. In 1977 he controversially adopted his idol (Elvis) and mother's maiden name (Costello). | |||
Two years later he allegedly said some racist things about Ray Charles. And in 1981 he was criticised for audaciously taking on Nashville with a country album, ''Almost Blue''.Today he's still provoking people. | Two years later he allegedly said some racist things about Ray Charles. And in 1981 he was criticised for audaciously taking on Nashville with a country album, ''Almost Blue''. Today he's still provoking people. | ||
Playing two-and-a-half hours of old standards and new favourites, Costello always looked like he was going to do, or say, something out of turn. | Playing two-and-a-half hours of old standards and new favourites, Costello always looked like he was going to do, or say, something out of turn. | ||
Early number | Early number "The Delivery Man" is "a number I wrote for Johnny Cash," he says, before "Watching The Detectives" flows into a cool-as-mince rendition of "Suspicious Minds." At one point Costello sings into the pickups of a cheap guitar he bought in Mississippi. He even backchats the audience when they fail to clap loudly enough after an upbeat number: "I thought you'd lost your gift of song, Edinburgh?" | ||
There's no flashy stage backdrop, no pretentious showboating. Every song is given special attention — apart from "(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea," played so fast it could have been a speed metal number. But everyone came to hear "Oliver's Army." And they got it, played with lung-bursting venom.The audience danced their hearts out before Elvis (in true Elvis style) left the building without returning for an encore. | |||
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