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'''Mr Costello and a high class chatshow confrontation witnessed by Sylvie Simmons | |||
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One man's fame and fortune has a way of making another man eat his words; all that bread going around makes for a good sandwich. America's NBC network made a veritable buffet of their words recently when they sat Elvis Costello opposite veteran talk-show host Tom Snyder for his second live TV appearance. | One man's fame and fortune has a way of making another man eat his words; all that bread going around makes for a good sandwich. America's NBC network made a veritable buffet of their words recently when they sat Elvis Costello opposite veteran talk-show host Tom Snyder for his second live TV appearance. | ||
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The first was on NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'' show which Elvis found was not so live when he upset the station by swapping "Radio, Radio" for his scheduled song. They told him, "You'll never work again." And now here he is at one in the morning LA time making a spectacle of himself. | The first was on NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'' show which Elvis found was not so live when he upset the station by swapping "Radio, Radio" for his scheduled song. They told him, "You'll never work again." And now here he is at one in the morning LA time making a spectacle of himself. | ||
Tom Snyder is an ageing Russell Harty type who guffaws at his own (bad) jokes, leans forward so he can touch his guest intimately while his hairy-caterpillar eyebrows pump up and down like newlyweds with no sense of direction, says | Tom Snyder is an ageing Russell Harty type who guffaws at his own (bad) jokes, leans forward so he can touch his guest intimately while his hairy-caterpillar eyebrows pump up and down like newlyweds with no sense of direction, says "heck" and "golly" and "for pete's sake" a lot and knows absolutely nothing about music. (When Wings were on he had a video of them in action then asked Mrs Linda how long she'd been playing guitar!) | ||
Elvis had been warned about the eyebrows and matched our Tom twitch for twitch, adding a few impromptu ones of his own — he seemed nervous, the old cold-sweat-on-the-forehead bit, but was otherwise sweet, articulate and much funnier than Snyder could ever be — though saying at the end he was disappointed that Tom didn't return the compliment and do his | Elvis had been warned about the eyebrows and matched our Tom twitch for twitch, adding a few impromptu ones of his own — he seemed nervous, the old cold-sweat-on-the-forehead bit, but was otherwise sweet, articulate and much funnier than Snyder could ever be — though saying at the end he was disappointed that Tom didn't return the compliment and do his "funny legs." Maybe it was because he wasn't wearing such a snazzy suit as Elv. | ||
"Do you rebel when record companies tell you to do the new product?" asked Tom after Elvis played one of two songs from ''Trust''. | "Do you rebel when record companies tell you to do the new product?" asked Tom after Elvis played one of two songs from ''Trust''. | ||
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"Well that was before we persuaded them that that isn't the way we work," said Costello with a mysterious smile. "After a little gentle persuasion we've got a much better understanding on those matters now." | "Well that was before we persuaded them that that isn't the way we work," said Costello with a mysterious smile. "After a little gentle persuasion we've got a much better understanding on those matters now." | ||
After some beating about the bush, Tom brought up the matter of Elvis's | After some beating about the bush, Tom brought up the matter of Elvis's "angry young man" image, asking if he'd learned to "channel your energies and not get angry at situations." | ||
"Do I look angry?" said our hero, adding, "to be really straight about it, some of the time it was nerves — that tends to make you more aggressive. Other times it was righteous, particularly when we first came here and we might have just landed from Mars the way people looked at us. We were genuinely trying to put it over forcefully, and the complacency that was in music at that time — which is not to say that it's got any better, because it's not getting better at all — that was the way we felt at the time, and I just want to present a wider picture now. | "Do I look angry?" said our hero, adding, "to be really straight about it, some of the time it was nerves — that tends to make you more aggressive. Other times it was righteous, particularly when we first came here and we might have just landed from Mars the way people looked at us. We were genuinely trying to put it over forcefully, and the complacency that was in music at that time — which is not to say that it's got any better, because it's not getting better at all — that was the way we felt at the time, and I just want to present a wider picture now. | ||
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