Elvis Costello Remembers Writing Music With Paul McCartney (2015)

[@HUMDUDE]

My Brave Face is so underrated! Such an awesome song.

[@BeatlesCentricUniverse]

Incredible song, with an incredible bass part!

[@ST-xg3gy]

Great interview! Bring him back!👏

[@yuvgotubekidding]

Howard has evolved into a great interviewer. Early in his career he was mainly brash to say the least, but his style now is more person to person and he gets artists to give genuine answers. He asks questions that haven’t been asked a thousand times already.

[@lmp9726]

Except that Stern interrupted Elvis several times.

[@oppothumbs1]

Sure he's good now, he's interviewing top people but nothing is wrong with brash with some people .. that is what put Howard on the map. Wish he would do it more of harsh sometimes, but not with great talent just smarmy stars .. all the smarmy people where do they all come from?

[@robertjohnson4301]

He's collaborated with Paul McCartney and Burt Bacharach, and is married to jazz legend, Diana Kraal. His genius is recognized by some of the best in the business.

[@GlennDavey]

If Elvis Presley is "the King" then Elvis Costello is the what?

[@harmonium8198]

@@GlennDavey Also the king.

[@Meme_Lor]

​@@GlennDaveythe king of america

[@simonhirstmusic]

Loved this! Really liked what EC says toward the end about it maybe being better that it wasn’t filmed. This struck me a few years ago when I was blessed enough to have one of my musical heroes come in to a studio to say hi, and he ended up playing on one of my songs. I mean like one of the top 3 people who made me start playing/writing music! Surreal. We had a great hang and he told me stories about the sessions behind some of my favourite songs of theirs/his. I remember briefly thinking it would be cool if I had footage of it, but the more I thought about it I realised it wouldn’t have been as special in some ways. It was a special few hours I will always treasure, I think even more-so because it was just that. A moment between a few people 🙏🏻

[@fishhookism]

I understand that completely.

[@BelleTolles]

Loved this. And Elvis has no reason to be intimidated. Him talking about the back and forth song made me think of his song with Lucinda Williams, which I absolutely love, and which makes me laugh no matter how many times I hear it

[@4-dman464]

Fascinating.

[@mikethomas6120]

There is even footage here on KZbin of the two of them rehearsing early demos.

[@ryanambrose7273]

Veronica is f*ing beautiful

[@integral]

A real gem. Only Elvis would take a walk down that path for a pop song.

[@ClueSign]

It's spectacular. I almost drove off the road first time I heard it.

[@oppothumbs1]

But nothing is like Costello's album This Years Model and Get hAPPY!

[@samsonwilkinson8090]

Elvis is an honourary Scouser so he's allright.

[@buckybeen1]

Elvis is King!

[@darinsingleton3553]

Kinda interesting that Stern sorta falls a bit into the "If there isn't a photo/video of it, then it didn't really happen (truly mean anything.) Not everything has to be recorded. Not all moments need to be monetized for clicks. Sometimes human interaction is sufficient, in and of itself, whether it gets a hundred likes, or not.

[@makeadifference4all]

I wonder why their collaboration lasted for such a short time. Paul has songs co-written with Elvis Costello on only two McCartney albums: "Flowers in the Dirt" (1989) and "Off the Ground" (1993).

[@NorsePJ]

It's not really short as he was doing the same thing with Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Eric Stewart. They're artists and they're travelling different roads but sometimes they find themselves on a parallel path. True artists always move on to new discoveries.

[@oppothumbs1]

The collaboration just didn't turn up much great stuff.

[@andydixon2980]

@@NorsePJ Well said.

[@ewest14]

@@oppothumbs1 Go listen to the demos of Flowers in the Dirt on the Archive Collection. They wrote great songs together that got ruined by the production

[@rainblaze.]

To be honest I don't think they got on that well. It's notable that when stern asked him if they developed a lasting relationship he EC sort of changed the subject. I remember mccartney commenting on their colab with thinking that Elvis was trying to sing over him all the time (EC does have a LOUD voice) and as stated here nicking all the best lines. McCartney is hugely talanted no doubt. But Elvis is touched by real genius. Listen to beyond belief and almost blue. Or even Oliver's army. Mccartney could only dream of cumin up with songs of such subtlety and transgressivness

[@juliekostas7322]

A legend…. Just incredible.

[@darinjames3313]

ELVIS.......C.......Whats so funny bout peace love and understanding.......ELVIS.....C......

[@steveleblanc7983]

Written by Nick Lowe. Love Elvis's version the best.

[@came6939]

Let him talk a little more, Howard.

[@happyhappygoodgood4455]

Elvis costello

[@R0yL33]

Elvis is thinkin "..and I ain't chopped liver too"

[@billburns7721]

Supposedly EC showed up late to their sessions and Pauly did not like that..

[@KilianMcCartney]

Elvis took too many drugs apparently because they recorded a lot of the sessions of them both together. It’s even on the Flowers In The Dirt Archive Collection DVD

[@GlennDavey]

Name checks out, were you there too? LOL

[@electrojones]

Elbow Consuela

[@rattyeely]

Amazing.

[@neilcrowesongs9768]

Why is he wearing sunglasses.

[@sickgameplay13]

Hi high af

[@douglaslowe5]

Why not?

[@tolanstout]

Howard is such a #Kenite. Elvis points out his cowardess by pointing out how far away Howard is (due to his irrational fear of Convid)

[@rattyeely]

What's he eating lol

[@elvinhayes7120]

Howard at his best, not talking over Elvis, looking for the positive

[@Steve_Stowers]

Yes, but I wish Howard had let Elvis talk a bit longer before cutting in at 3:38.

[@robertfrazer8161]

@@Steve_Stowers Howard cut in on Elvis at 25 seconds!

[@GlennDavey]

@@robertfrazer8161 He only cuts when he senses someone's about to give a pat answer, and asks a slightly different one to get them to say something new

[@robertfrazer8161]

@@GlennDavey I disagree with that, Howards cuts in so many times in interviews, i sometimes wonder if the interview is about him, in his mind.

[@lynnturman8157]

I wrote with Paul McCartney. Yeah, and I was in the Beatles. Somehow they always managed to elbow me out of the photo shoot.

[@BeatlesCentricUniverse]

Me too!