More Info →Elvis the Survivor : Variety Keeps Him on Top

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The information for this image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 7th June 1982.

"Elvis Costello once said he wanted to keep his music as varied and different as possible. He once mused that was the only way to survive and enjoy it. Costello showed us all last night in the Manawatu Sports Stadium how he survived and enjoyed these past five years or so, with an hour and 20 minutes of intelligent and diversified music.

And he was so confident about it all. Costello, the angry young man of the music industry who has shunned media and the wishes of record companies. has a reputation as one of the most influential new wave artists in Britain. He is certainly one of the most innovative. He carefully avoided many of his "country and western" Almost Blue songs, sticking to songs from his new LP, Imperial Bedroom, and the favourites from My Aim is True, This Year's Model, Get Happy and Trust.

The taste of his new album said it was nothing like the shock of his last. Costello and his three Attractions flew from one song to the next, often blending the transition from one to the other leaving barely a breathing space."

[The full article can be read on the newspaper microfilm held at the City Library.]

Identification

Object type

Image

Archive

Manawatū Evening Standard Negative Collection

Relation

2017-20

Date

June 7, 1982

Digitisation ID

2021N_2017-20_038208_002

Format

B&W negative

Held In

"Coolstore"