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The stage grew darker. Only a faint yellow backlight and then total darkness, with the band still pounding out the challenge. Suddenly Elvis' face glowed red, ''"If you throw me away, well, I'm not broken; you've got a lot to say but I'm not joking."'' Reject me, I don't care, but just listen to what I have to say. | The stage grew darker. Only a faint yellow backlight and then total darkness, with the band still pounding out the challenge. Suddenly Elvis' face glowed red, ''"If you throw me away, well, I'm not broken; you've got a lot to say but I'm not joking."'' Reject me, I don't care, but just listen to what I have to say. | ||
Costello took another carefully aimed shot at the music industry with his anthem-like, "Radio Radio," dedicating the song to "all the computerized people in radio, who are trying to tell you want to think." The former computer-operator drew a definite YES from the crowd when he asked "Do you hate your radio?" | Costello took another carefully aimed shot at the music industry with his anthem-like, "Radio, Radio," dedicating the song to "all the computerized people in radio, who are trying to tell you want to think." The former computer-operator drew a definite YES from the crowd when he asked "Do you hate your radio?" | ||
''"And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anesthesize the way that you feel,"'' he accuses. Accusations come easy, but when he backs them with ''"I want to bite the hand that feeds me,"'' you have to believe him. | ''"And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anesthesize the way that you feel,"'' he accuses. Accusations come easy, but when he backs them with ''"I want to bite the hand that feeds me,"'' you have to believe him. | ||
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As the opening act, the Rubinoos left this reviewer cold, but they served their purpose. The quartet warmed the crowd to "hot," with a set of oldies by the Beatles, the Ventures and Tommy James and the Shondells. | As the opening act, the Rubinoos left this reviewer cold, but they served their purpose. The quartet warmed the crowd to "hot," with a set of oldies by the Beatles, the Ventures and Tommy James and the Shondells. | ||
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