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[[Wendell Jamieson]] previews | [[Wendell Jamieson]] interviews Elvis and previews his shows solo on Saturday, [[Concert 2016-10-01 New York|October 1, 2016]], Town Hall, New York, NY and with The Imposters on Sunday, [[Concert 2016-11-06 New York|November 6, 2016]] and Monday, [[Concert 2016-11-07 New York|November 7, 2016 ]] at Beacon Theatre, New York, NY. | ||
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<small><!--Richard Hell, left, and Mr. Costello backstage at CBGB in New Wave’s heyday.-->Photo credit: [[Roberta Bayley]]/Redferns, via Getty Images</small> | <small><!--Richard Hell, left, and Mr. Costello backstage at CBGB in New Wave’s heyday.-->Photo credit: [[Roberta Bayley]]/Redferns, via Getty Images</small> | ||
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<center><h3> A Dream Come True: ''Metro'' Editor Meets Lifelong Hero, Elvis Costello </h3></center> | |||
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Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this piece, Wendell Jamieson, the editor of the ''Metro'' section, shares his experience at the Algonquin Hotel with his idol, the musician Elvis Costello. | |||
I didn’t tell him about the time my dad pulled our Honda alongside his limousine on the West Side Highway and how, as both cars idled at a red light, I reached through the open window, across the broken white line, and shook his hand. | |||
I didn’t tell him about how I put on a jacket and went to the lobby of the Parker Meridian hotel with a friend and ordered drinks — we were 18; the drinking age was 19 — in the hopes we might meet him. (It was expensive.) | |||
I didn’t tell him about the time I actually met him, backstage at the Forest Hills tennis stadium in 1984, when another friend — this one a gorgeous redheaded girl — found the tent where the band was hanging out. The bouncers parted as if by magic, the rest of us fell in step behind her and we all chatted amiably with him for at least 15 minutes. | |||
I didn’t tell him how, when my mother and sister were away in the summer, I would stay up all night in our house in Brooklyn playing along with his records — first on chairs positioned like a drum-set (badly), then on piano (badly), then on bass guitar (maybe not so badly). | |||
But I did tell Elvis Costello about the July afternoon in 1982 when I bought his album “''Imperial Bedroom''” at Record Factory on 8th street in Greenwich Village. It took a few days for new releases to make it to my local record store, Soundtracks on 7th Avenue in Park Slope, so I went in to Manhattan, but this meant an excruciating wait on the subway ride home. I opened the sleeve. For the first time on an Elvis Costello album, lyrics were printed, though in all caps with no paragraphs, no breaks and no punctuation. I pored over them but that wasn’t enough. So I slid out the disc itself and stared at it, as if the grooves would release the melodies to my eyes. | |||
He laughed at this one, and looked only slightly worried. After all, he knew what it was to be a fan — he was a member of the Beatles fan club when he was growing up. And he’s used to fans who are obsessed with his music; he’s never been a huge star in the United States, but he’s always had a deeply devoted following. What his most loyal listeners lack in numbers they make up for in intensity. | |||
We were chatting in a booth in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel in July for a story I planned to write for Arts & Leisure about a long-held theory of mine: that though Mr. Costello grew up in Liverpool and London and has lived in Dublin and now Canada, his music has a certain New York sensibility — sharp, honest, to-the-point, but with beauty and affection below the surface. And I wanted to get to the bottom of his New York story: The city has appeared at important moments in his life and in his music. | |||
Relaxed and funny, alternately sipping cappuccino and sparkling water, our conversation dipping serendipitously in and out of different phases of his career, he was intrigued by my theory, though, as I say in my story, not initially convinced. He warmed up to the idea, however, as our allotted 45-minutes stretched to nearly two hours, and additional bottles of sparkling water arrived at our table. Maybe he was just pleased to undergo a line of questioning he’d never encountered before. Or maybe it was so hot outside that he didn’t want to leave the hotel. | |||
But I had a bigger reason to be there than the story. I was meeting a lifelong hero. | |||
Why, as a 13-year-old from Brooklyn, did I pick Elvis Costello as my guy and never look back? I’ve seen him perform maybe 30 times — a lot, but nothing compared to other fans. My girlfriend in 10th grade got us sixth-row tickets to see him after “''Imperial Bedroom''” came out (he and his killer band, The Attractions, opened with “Accidents Will Happen”); my girlfriend senior year took me to see him at Stony Brook University on Long Island (the first time I saw him perform solo), and my girlfriend in my early 20s somehow managed to get a copy of his album, “''Mighty Like a Rose'',” one week early. (We’ve been married 22 years and have two children.) | |||
Did Mr. Costello’s youthful irritation at authority, his simultaneous affection for and fear of girls and women, his obvious fascination with history and politics, make me feel a certain kinship with him? Did his wordplay tickle my brain and make me want to untangle more riddles? Did his harassed characters and dark narratives make me want to listen in the way that one glances, guiltily, at a couple arguing on the sidewalk? Did his melodies and band’s playing send my spirit soaring? Who knows? I heard his music and I was gone. | |||
I’m the Metro editor of ''The New York Times''. I’ve dined with mayors and governors and police commissioners — been chewed out by them, too — and met plenty of actors, authors and musicians. Now I’m 50, and I thought: Maybe it’s time to get together with Elvis again. Maybe he has all the answers. I pitched his people, and they went for it. I knew I wouldn’t gush or make a fool of myself, but I also knew that it was important for him to know that I was a fan and that the story I planned to write was going to include my fandom. | |||
My first thought when I saw him walk into the lobby was that Elvis Costello still looks remarkably like Elvis Costello — black-rimmed glasses, hairline, suit jacket, jaunty in a slightly jumbled way. My second thought when we sat down was that there would be no lulls in this interview: Elvis has a lot to say. We got rolling and were soon discussing various memories from nights we had shared, like New Year’s Eve 1981 at the Palladium on 14th Street in Manhattan. He was on stage in a bow tie with The Attractions for nearly three hours that night; I was way, way, way up in the balcony with a group of friends for whom the ticket price — $19.82 — had nearly broken our collective banks. | |||
As the conversation moved along, it became painfully clear that I was in the presence of someone far more intelligent than myself, and someone whose knowledge of music of all kinds is as complete as my knowledge of Elvis Costello’s music. He’s a born conversationalist, self-effacing and not afraid of eye contact, and as unfailingly charming as he was that night backstage in Forest Hills, even without the gorgeous redhead. Unlike many people I’ve met as a writer, he seemed interested in the life of his interviewer. He even disagreed with me several times — like when I said that being in a band was like being in a marriage: “No, I can tell you it’s nothing like being in a marriage.” I took the disagreements as a sign of respect: I mean, why bother setting me straight if he thinks I’m a moron? | |||
At one point, we paused to look at our phones — in his case “to check on the lads.” (He has two sons, Dexter and Frank, with his wife, the singer and jazz pianist Diana Krall.) | |||
Alas, he couldn’t tell me why his music touched me so. But he seemed to think the answer wasn’t very important. Music, he said, is not something you should think about too much. Maybe you should just feel it. | |||
Only at the end of the interview, all my New York questions asked, my job done, did it begin to dawn on me: You are sitting in a booth with Elvis Costello. This man sitting right here talking to you — wait, what did he just say? — is Elvis Costello. My mind wandered — focus, focus. The 15-year-old boy inside me, hair greasy and spiky, bashing on chairs along with “''Get Happy!!''”, struggled to get out. But I kept it together. My only star-struck moment was when he ordered a cappuccino with no cinnamon, and I said a bit too enthusiastically, “I’ll have what he’s having!” — even though I like cinnamon on my cappuccino. | |||
His handler came along and said they had to go take photographs. We shook hands and I told him, truthfully, that it had been an honor, and I thanked him for all the joy he’d given me over these last three-and-a-half decades. He said I was welcome. | |||
So what’s it like to meet the focus of such lifelong fascination? Deeply rewarding when that person appreciates your interest, is friendly and fully engaged, and is perhaps at a moment in life, like you , when he is looking back over the decades with a certain sense of satisfaction, and looking forward wondering — o.k., I’ve got a bunch of things I still need to do: What’s next, and how are the lads? | |||
It’s a bonus when you manage not to make a fool of yourself (at least I think I didn’t). Maybe I should have suggested we have our picture taken in that booth. But I decided not to. I mean, I’m a pro. I didn’t want him to think I was obsessed or anything. | |||
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*[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/arts/music/elvis-costellos-new-york-soul.html NYTimes.com] | *[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/arts/music/elvis-costellos-new-york-soul.html NYTimes.com] | ||
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/insider/a-dream-come-true-metro-editor-meets-lifelong-hero-elvis-costello.html NYTimes.com] | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times Wikipedia: New York Times] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times Wikipedia: New York Times] | ||
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