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Belligerent, addlepated, myopic, knock-kneed and obviously very much his own man, Elvis Costello is waking rock 'n' roll up from its 1970s pop music coma. | Belligerent, addlepated, myopic, knock-kneed and obviously very much his own man, Elvis Costello is waking rock 'n' roll up from its 1970s pop music coma. | ||
Costello is the twentyish, former computer programmer-or-something Cockney kid with horn-rimmed glasses who plays guitar and writes enjoyably rebellious songs that lie somewhere between "new wave" and punk rock | Costello is the twentyish, former computer programmer-or-something Cockney kid with horn-rimmed glasses who plays guitar and writes enjoyably rebellious songs that lie somewhere between "new wave" and punk rock music. | ||
Introducing his song "about radio and how it isn't any good," Costello chided his nearly sold-out audience at Shea's Buffalo Theater Thursday night: | Introducing his song "about radio and how it isn't any good," Costello chided his nearly sold-out audience at Shea's Buffalo Theater Thursday night: | ||
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And of course half of the crowd stood up and cheered Costello's vitriolic valentine to the record industry summed up with the sentiment that, ''"I want to bite the hand that feeds me, I want to bite it oh so badly ..."'' | And of course half of the crowd stood up and cheered Costello's vitriolic valentine to the record industry, summed up with the sentiment that, ''"I want to bite the hand that feeds me, I want to bite it oh so badly ..."'' | ||
Because behind his stage pose of sullen, recalcitrant contempt apparently is an OK guy. | Because behind his stage pose of sullen, recalcitrant contempt apparently is an OK guy. | ||
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