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The secretive star who hates being photographed abandoned his own aggressive songs and flew to Nashville, Tennessee, to make the record. | The secretive star who hates being photographed abandoned his own aggressive songs and flew to Nashville, Tennessee, to make the record. | ||
Costello, 26, attributes the new style to his obsession with dying young. | |||
He says: “It’s starting to take me over”. | |||
“I don’t know why I’ve chosen to do so many sad songs. It’s a total contradiction when I’m happily married.” | |||
“But I couldn’t have got the feeling I was aiming for with my own words. | |||
“Country music is real because it’s about ordinary people’s lives.” | |||
Costello explains his conversion to Country music in an ITV documentary that will be shown next month. A film crew followed him to Nashville for the recording session. | |||
Costello wearing a bootlace tie with his more characteristic punk-inspired garb, is seen rubbing shoulders with guys in ten-gallon hats and listening to Country bands in Nashville bars. | |||
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And he has several arguments with producer Billy Sherrill about how the album should sound. | |||
The programme contains film of Costello’s first live Country performance at a Country and Western club… in Aberdeen. | |||
He said: “I decided to do it in front of people who know about Country music to see how it went down.” | |||
The show was a hit. | |||
Now the shy star is driving TV chiefs wild by refusing to pose for publicity pictures for the documentary. | |||
So far Costello’s new sound doesn’t seem to have done him any harm. | |||
His single, Good Year for the Roses, is from his new album and is number 14 in the charts. | |||
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{{tags}}[[Almost Blue]] {{-}} [[Good Year For The Roses]] | {{tags}}[[Almost Blue]] {{-}} [[Good Year For The Roses]] {{-}} [[The South Bank Show]] {{-}} [[Billy Sherrill]] {{-}} [[Concert 1981-07-30 Aberdeen]] | ||
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'''Daily Mirror, October 17, 1981 | '''Daily Mirror, October 17, 1981 | ||
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[[Penny Chrimes]] previews ''[[Almost Blue]]''. | [[Penny Chrimes]] previews ''[[The South Bank Show]]'' documentary on the recording of ''[[Almost Blue]]''. | ||
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[[Category:London Daily Mirror| London Daily Mirror 1981-10-17]] | [[Category:London Daily Mirror| London Daily Mirror 1981-10-17]] | ||
[[Category:Newspaper articles]] | [[Category:Newspaper articles]] | ||
