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<center><h3> Hello, Goodbye </h3></center> | <center><h3> Hello, Goodbye </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Bruce Thomas and Elvis Costello </center> | <center>''' Bruce Thomas and Elvis Costello </center> | ||
<center>First they shared a band, rooms and an outlook on life. Then <br> the harmony gave way to glares of "shit-eating death". </center> | <center> First they shared a band, rooms and an outlook on life. Then <br> the harmony gave way to glares of "shit-eating death". </center> | ||
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<center> Johnny Black </center> | <center> Johnny Black </center> | ||
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'''Hello | '''Hello | ||
June 5, 1977 | June 5, 1977 — I answered an [[Melody Maker, June 4, 1977|advert]] in the ''Melody Maker'' saying "Rocking pop combo needs bass player." I rang up Stiff Records and this woman answered. I heard this voice in the background saving, "Ask him who he likes." I said, "Steely Dan and Graham Parker" and the voice said, "Get rid of him." And that was Elvis. | ||
The audition was in Putney. They were in brothel creepers and drainpipes, I was in earth shoes and flares. 1 got a lot of disparaging looks. My first impressions of Elvis were of a very intense guy trying hard not to make eye contact. Stand-offish, aloof, very sweaty. The first album wasn't out yet, but I'd bought the singles and learned to play "Alison," "Red Shoes," "Less Than Zero" pretty well, but pretended I was learning them. It was a good ploy until they started doing songs I'd never heard before and I couldn't get them quite so quickly. | The audition was in Putney. They were in brothel creepers and drainpipes, I was in earth shoes and flares. 1 got a lot of disparaging looks. My first impressions of Elvis were of a very intense guy trying hard not to make eye contact. Stand-offish, aloof, very sweaty. The first album wasn't out yet, but I'd bought the singles and learned to play "Alison," "Red Shoes," "Less Than Zero" pretty well, but pretended I was learning them. It was a good ploy until they started doing songs I'd never heard before and I couldn't get them quite so quickly. | ||
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'''Goodbye | '''Goodbye | ||
September 15, 1996 | September 15, 1996 — It's often said I was sacked for the things I'd written in my book ''The Big Wheel'', but the real wedge between us was when Cait from The Pogues came on the scene. We used to call her Beryl because she looked like Beryl The Peril in the ''Beano'', long and gawky. Then one day they were sitting on the bus together and were an item, and he was glaring at me with this shit-eating death look. | ||
There was a meeting before we started ''King Of America'' in 1985 — he was going through an identity crisis when he decided he was Declan McManus again, not Elvis Costello. The Attractions disbanded, but drifted back gradually and did ''Brutal Youth'' in 1994. During that album we became matey again. It rattled along for a couple of years, then went weird again. The defining moment was a gig in Spain in 1996. He was doing "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" and, in the middle, I played a little blues lick. Next day he said, "I don't want you camping it up on-stage any more." He said the classic line, "There's only room for one star on that stage." | There was a meeting before we started ''King Of America'' in 1985 — he was going through an identity crisis when he decided he was Declan McManus again, not Elvis Costello. The Attractions disbanded, but drifted back gradually and did ''Brutal Youth'' in 1994. During that album we became matey again. It rattled along for a couple of years, then went weird again. The defining moment was a gig in Spain in 1996. He was doing "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" and, in the middle, I played a little blues lick. Next day he said, "I don't want you camping it up on-stage any more." He said the classic line, "There's only room for one star on that stage." | ||
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