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<center><h3> Elvis detected in LA: critic on the case </h3></center> | <center><h3> Elvis detected in LA: critic on the case </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Sylvie Simmons </center> | <center> Sylvie Simmons </center> | ||
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'''Elvis Costello <br> | |||
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The yellow posters outside the Los Angeles Whisky and the yellow pins handed to the punters make him out a Buddy Holly figure who murders young ladies in showers. Very gawky, very jaundiced. Very sinister. He could have been anything. OK, so he has a hit record in England (so have the Sex Pistols and | The yellow posters outside the Los Angeles Whisky and the yellow pins handed to the punters make him out a Buddy Holly figure who murders young ladies in showers. Very gawky, very jaundiced. Very sinister. He could have been anything. OK, so he has a hit record in England (so have the Sex Pistols and ABBA, so that doesn't help). He doesn't look like a punk, so what the hell is he doing at the Whisky? | ||
The man who quietly stepped behind the mike shoulders hunched with the weight of a big black guitar looked quite harmless, more like a bank teller than a psychopath; like Popeye before he'd had his spinach. Visual and eye-catching, if only in a negative way, in blue-grey jacket and trousers, black-rimmed NHS spectacles and a haircut that looks like a barber's nasty accident. No introductions, no hello-good-to-be-heres, just straight into the music, starting out this first show of a two-night stand in Hollywood with "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes." Very good it was too, rolling along with a fine steady backbeat from The Attractions and strong vocals, surprisingly so, from a singer who seems intent on appearing a joke, if only to emphasise the fact that once he starts the music, the joke's on his detractors. Elvis Costello and his band play ripe, full rock 'n' roll. | The man who quietly stepped behind the mike shoulders hunched with the weight of a big black guitar looked quite harmless, more like a bank teller than a psychopath; like Popeye before he'd had his spinach. Visual and eye-catching, if only in a negative way, in blue-grey jacket and trousers, black-rimmed NHS spectacles and a haircut that looks like a barber's nasty accident. No introductions, no hello-good-to-be-heres, just straight into the music, starting out this first show of a two-night stand in Hollywood with "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes." Very good it was too, rolling along with a fine steady backbeat from The Attractions and strong vocals, surprisingly so, from a singer who seems intent on appearing a joke, if only to emphasise the fact that once he starts the music, the joke's on his detractors. Elvis Costello and his band play ripe, full rock 'n' roll. | ||
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[[Sylvie Simmons]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]], Friday, [[Concert 1977-11-18 Los Angeles|November 18, 1977]], Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles. | [[Sylvie Simmons]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]], Friday, [[Concert 1977-11-18 Los Angeles (early)|November 18, 1977]], Whisky{{nb}}a{{nb}}Go{{nb}}Go, Los Angeles. | ||
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[[image:1977-12-10 Sounds page 51.jpg| | [[image:1977-12-10 Sounds page 51 clipping 01.jpg|380px]] | ||
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<small>Photo by [[Paul Cox]].</small><br> | <small>Photo by [[Paul Cox]].</small><br> | ||
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[[image:1977-12-10 Sounds cover.jpg|x120px | <small>Cover and page scan.</small><br> | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_(magazine) Wikipedia: Sounds] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_(magazine) Wikipedia: Sounds] | ||
*[https://twitter.com/SoundsClips/status/1469244459850346500 Twitter: SoundsClips] | |||
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