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<center><h3> Transport the imagination </h3></center> | <center><h3> Transport the imagination </h3></center> | ||
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'''That's what all great songs do, says Elvis Costello. Arguably the best lyricist of the past quarter-century, he's back with a new album, his first solo effort in years. Here's how an Angry Young Man evolved into a Destiny's Child fan. | |||
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Elvis Costello has just mentioned Ira Gershwin and Destiny's Child in the same breath. The free association of an unstable man? No. It's the calculus of a pop music aficionado who has traveled time, space and taste to unlock the mystery of the Great Song Lyric. "There's no one thing they all share, except the ability to transport the imagination," he muses. "Destiny's Child's "Say My Name" is as good as anything [Motown's] Holland-Dozier-Holland ever wrote. It's a simple story anybody can recognize, done with tremendous panache." | Elvis Costello has just mentioned Ira Gershwin and Destiny's Child in the same breath. The free association of an unstable man? No. It's the calculus of a pop music aficionado who has traveled time, space and taste to unlock the mystery of the Great Song Lyric. "There's no one thing they all share, except the ability to transport the imagination," he muses. "Destiny's Child's "Say My Name" is as good as anything [Motown's] Holland-Dozier-Holland ever wrote. It's a simple story anybody can recognize, done with tremendous panache." | ||
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