The Untold Truth Of Elvis Costello

[@GrungeHQ]

What is your favorite song by Elvis Costello?

[@RHR-221b]

*The Angel's Waaana Strangle Me with Their Heavy Red Laces.* That's my favourite piece of keech/shite from this flaccid nonentity. Have a won a major prize? Stay free. R 🍻😎 🎲 🌠

[@nunyabisniss1179]

Alyson

[@meyerj75]

"Pump It Up" - the precursor to The Escape Club's "Wild Wild West" a decade later.

[@victoriasoto1017]

Alison and Radio, Radio

[@Mike-ir9fx]

@@meyerj75 pump it up was influenced by subterranean homesick blues.

[@sonoko33]

Met him when I was a star struck 15 year old backstage at one of his early gigs in the UK. He was a lovely guy but his band mates thought it would be funny to start singing “ turning Japanese” because I am half Japanese. I think he sensed my disappointment and gave me a hug and was very kind to me. Still love his early songs “ Pump it up” and “Alison”.

[@HecticU.P.K]

Oh dear that’s a bit rude.

[@lamestudiosinc418]

Surprised his racist ass didn't call you a slur.

[@alisondavies1647]

My mum and dad named me after Alison, it was there one of their favourite songs.

[@nunyabisniss1179]

It's my favorite!! How awesome your parents named you after the song ❤️🌹🔥

[@rajoconnor]

Named my Daughter after the song too.

[@chrissmith8526]

You do know it’s about a man planning to kill his ex gf Alison hence my aim is true

[@marshwetland3808]

@@chrissmith8526 Oh, bollocks.

[@adspur]

Such a beautiful name on you.

[@ed.z.]

A true musical artist. Such evolution. Such exploration. A diverse catalog of achievements.

[@tombodensick4437]

One of the greatest songwriters in music history. Dig his first two lps the most.

[@howardtyler7]

2 Tone Records were based in Coventry, not London.

[@deejaye2647]

Wow he had his mother until he was 66. How fortunate.

[@marshwetland3808]

Wow he had a mother who nurtured him. Very fortunate indeed.

[@simonccraddock]

Indeed me too. I am 66 my mum is still living at 93 and looks like she could go on for another 10 years! My dad recently passed at 96 I consider myself the most fortunate man and can only sympathize with those less fortunate

[@leesashriber5097]

Love his music. I wish him only the best. 😊🙏

[@Mike-ir9fx]

My favourite Elvis song is, man out of time. Magnificent lyrics.

[@djquinn11]

One of the greatest songwriters of his era.

[@ed.z.]

Of any era.

[@janetaldrich7747]

Wish theyd mentioned Veronica. Heartbreaking, but a gorgeous song.

[@rbraiden1]

Saw him at the ElMo in 78 and it was awesome. some him a few days ago at Massey Hall, not so awesome. The years have taken their toll on his voice...

[@Mike-ir9fx]

A songwriter supreme ♥️

[@joeviking61]

I never realized Elvis was older than me. His music was so integral to my life.

[@TheNomaer]

God give me Strength, Toledo, I still have that other girl on my mind,. Come on. How did you not mention his Grammy winning album with Burt Bachrach "Painted by Memory"? Other wise a very good recap of Elvis Costello's life. Nice Job.

[@ryanjones4150]

I haved loved Elvis' music for many decades. I recently got the CD of his latest album, The Boy Named If. It is fantastic. I can't stop listening to it. He's a treasure.

[@MC-in8mc]

He was an absolutely amazing singer and song-writer...I wish I'd met him in real life😍

[@ultraredd]

Was? He's still alive and playing

[@minx2528]

He is..

[@ginomazzei1076]

Mr Diana krall

[@albertdehn8381]

Thanks for sharing 👍😀

[@victoriasoto1017]

My kind of Elvis.

[@johnswan6759]

Class comment. Love it. My kind too🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@DigitalLazarus]

At 5:15 - Not to be pedantic but 2Tone was not a "London Movement." The subculture launched in Coventry and the West Midlands -- a very different vibe than the Capital and the exact reasoning behind the movement. Please do better research. Thanks.

[@kay-dc8495]

Elvis has always been one of those guys I've never fully been keen in

[@donhurst8459]

He SUCKS.

[@garrettdavis6500]

Your probably illiterate. Musically, & intellectually.

[@DH-ve5bl]

I had a relative who was a police officer. She always got paranoid when she heard “Watching The Detectives “.

[@robinbanks610]

Brilliant muso✌️❤️

[@andymoody8363]

The Ska revival was centred in the Midlands, Birmingham and Coventry mainly, but soon spread round the country.

[@rikfoster2167]

Not untold. Very old facts

[@johnhodgetts2111]

Two tone originated and was based in Coventry, not London.

[@michaelconnolly7681]

He also produced the Pogues record- Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, a very uncompromising and brilliant record. I dont know too many of his songs but i love 'Oliver's Army'

[@Johnnyfive55]

Watch out for those with itchy triggers 😂

[@meyerj75]

You know Elvis Costello's career is f***ed up when he did "She's Not The Only Flame In Town" with Daryl Hall back in 1984 when the Attractions were at the breaking point. THAT song is not the best way to judge the band overall. I had to take solace in "Accidents Will Happen" in which MTV was still playing in modest rotation at the time to get away from that 1984 said song.

[@stephenjones101]

I wasn't a huge fan of his, but I bought "Armed Forces" on vinyl when it was first released (with free bonus 45 of Allison and Watching the Detectives), which I have since digitilized and still listen to. I still think it his best album. I also got to see him as opening act for Dylan in Atlanta, 2006. But I am amazed that, given I am not all that knowledgeable about Costello's personal life and career, I could easily think of a half dozen very important facts about him that aren't even mentioned in this video. Pretty lame, actually.

[@marshwetland3808]

Best album? Get HAppy.

[@HowardOwensIII]

This leaves the impression that the subject of Radio Radio was what irked Lorne Michaels. Nope. The song lengths were different. Saturday Night Live was a tightly programmed show. The change through off the timing.

[@daveansell2418]

Was a big fan until his gig at the UEA about '91. The professional 'scouser' came on stage very very late because he was watchin an LCFC game , the guitar hero then had a band member to hand over a different guitar for every song. When a someone threw a tin beer glass the working class hero threw a fucking hissy fit.

[@Joe-wo7rg]

Love Elvis Costello

[@jeebs3000]

the photo you use for the Bruce Thomas quotes is totally not him😊

[@lamper2]

When he was busking and arrested, what was his setlist then?

[@John-xk2sd]

Bruce Thomas wrote a biographical book about Bruce Lee

[@deejaye2647]

I don't believe he ever called anyone a rasist /derogatory name. That sounds like media lies - a huge hit job on him.

[@chrissmith8526]

I think he might have you sometimes have to separate your hero’s from their flaws

[@elframo]

Look up what he said about Ray Charles ..

[@chrissmith8526]

@@elframo yeah hero’s talk crap when they are pissed still he did say it even if he regretted it later

[@elframo]

@@chrissmith8526 yeah when the money came in

[@urbangorilla33]

It was wrong, irresponsible and inexcusable but it seems he was saying it to provoke the (white) members of Stills' band rather than expressing what he really felt.

[@CharlotteBrown-bh1cd]

Aweful narration, background noise, quick editing. horrible bio about Elvis Costello, who is a very talented musician.

[@stuartbrittain7835]

Since when did ska/two tone come from London????? Coventry!!!

[@NellieKAdaba]

Thanks.

[@johnkelsiemcnair7787]

Ray Charles' favorite new wave rocker. Right.

[@fumblerooskie]

He's long been the biggest dork in music.

[@canalesworks1247]

😂

[@PC-yk9ix]

Says the biggest dork on KZbin. Guy wears glasses he’s a dork. What are you in middle school?

[@senordeviscaya]

😎🤗😁❤❤✨✨🤘🤘🙏💎

[@arjenvreeken1593]

Actually "How To Be Dumb" was a reaction to Bruce Thomas's book, not the other way round. Do your research m8.

[@AndrewGoodwin-w7j]

Fans might want to learn that Beyond belief is about the moors murderers. I found out decades ago.

[@charlesfurniss8292]

No it isn't although there was a book about the Moors Murderers called Beyond Belief

[@MatthewHarrold]

My dad insisted Elvis Costello was the true Elvis, and pointed out the fake mess Elvis P was (sweat flop, obesity, perplexing Karate moves, eventual death). Looking like the then dead Buddy Holly, I was confused and infatuated. An excellent musician and songwriter. A fair and middlin' vocalist and yet ... a monumental talent. $0.02

[@kahlodiego5299]

That's my line! I always call Elvis Costello the real Elvis:. I do like the song "Trouble" in the movie "King Creole."

[@canalesworks1247]

EC has also had weight issues...so Both Elivises could be called "fat Elvis".

[@Bring_MeSunshine]

Two Tone Records, was NOT London-based. It was started by Jerry Dammers, the main songwriter of the Specials, in the City of Coventry, in the West Midlands, the Specials' hometown. Given that this is common knowledge in music history, I think you need to go back to the drawing board, and re-research, as there's a big difference between the two. Shockingly poor research, given the topic. What else did you get wrong?

[@mickavoidant4780]

It's not untold any more

[@37895]

Two Tone ... Coventry

[@1practicaljoker]

Elvis Costello should change his name back to Declan McManus because his music these days suck. He is no longer the punk that he was and now sounds more like Burt Bacharach.

[@troygaspard6732]

Giving you away like motel matches.

[@rehabmax]

I think Elvis Costello is a very gifted songwriter with a style all of his own. I have seen him multiple times on his US tours. Most recently a few days ago at Wolf Trap in Virginia. This may have been his best show show yet with Nick Lowe opening and ending with him. My admiration for him is conflicted, especially his Armed forces album which I found very \offensive. Songs about Hitler and Brown Shirts, and not "making a lampshade out of me". I thought this was totally irresponsible to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust. He may have had problems with Black artists, but Jewish people can't be very high on his list either. Interestingly Elvis suspects that his father was Jewish. Where did the the McMannus name come from? Was it changed to sound less Jewish ? Was the song The Man You Love to Hate a reference to his father or a wrestler with a similar last name as he told the audience. A musical genius, yes, but ____________.

[@canalesworks1247]

I think Costello was his mother's maiden name.

[@ginomazzei1076]

Heard him DISSING ARETHA FRANKLIN on CBC radio interview. Swear to god!

[@PC-yk9ix]

Nope. Never happened. He called her personally to ask her if she’d appear on his show Spectacle. Also, named her as one artist he’d like to collaborate with on a TV taping interview at John Jay College. When the reply got a tepid applause he repeated, ARETHA FRANKLIN! I know. I was there. (Swear to God).

[@GereDJ2]

They don't come much homelier or goofy as EC.

[@vernpascal1531]

Nor talented. That's what is important.

[@alg11297]

Not exactly the most interesting bio but then again he isn't either. No mention of Nick Lowe? Why does he choose a name with american celebrities, why does he wear those same silly glasses so he looks like Woody Allen, and why is his voice so bad? He's a big phony apparently.

[@RHR-221b]

*I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass!* Stay free, a. R 🍻 😎

[@PC-yk9ix]

You’re an idiot. You always focus on physical appearance? Are you a Kardashian or just a fan?

[@davidplatten9872]

But now now that you have told it, it is no longer untold………just sayin’……..🤓👍

[@theitineranthistorian2024]

he played for obama in the white house. mccartney was there.

[@arjenvreeken1593]

Why this anonymous cheap produced-by-the-the-mile-not-the-yard AI-like backgroundmusic...? very UnCostelloësque. And annoying too.

[@erwinaddison2030]

Over rated..

[@onetwo12onetwo526]

I thought I was the only 1

[@kevincampbell9526]

David Lee Roth once said the critics hate him and love Costello because most of them look like Costello.

[@psychologicalprojectionist]

I think you are either overrated or underrated in the music industry. He is certainly prolific, original and he hasn't yet made a christmas song, which are all positives, IMO.

[@brando7266]

@@onetwo12onetwo526 u r not,

[@onetwo12onetwo526]

@@brando7266 🤣 almost got 2 see a fight about this guy last week 😆

[@hazelwears8728]

Ok,I know all kind of music from the era,but he eludes me. Maybe because he's not from the USA and for the reason I never cared for the Beatles.

[@onetwo12onetwo526]

Always been trash

[@wolfman909]

Sounds like you’re a bit blinkered

[@hazelwears8728]

@@wolfman909? Never heard of that term! What?

[@onetwo12onetwo526]

@@hazelwears8728 perhaps the Brits are fans?

[@onetwo12onetwo526]

Not a lot of folks I know are even aware of him and what is his separating factor? Lyrics voice writing producing instruments?

[@cobar5342]

He cashed in on the name 'Elvis' - how cheap

[@PC-yk9ix]

Uh yeah. That’s it. Wouldn’t have had a legendary successful 40-plus year career if he didn’t cop the name Elvis. Do you make an effort to be an imbecile or does it just come naturally?

[@onetwo12onetwo526]

1 hit that's it

[@wolfman909]

don’t be silly

[@onetwo12onetwo526]

@@wolfman909 don't you even try

[@wolfman909]

@@onetwo12onetwo526 try what?

[@onetwo12onetwo526]

@@wolfman909 2 b silly

[@PC-yk9ix]

Looks like you’ve taken one too many hits to the head! Idiotic comment.

[@kellymaher3355]

He sucks. No appeal at all!

[@PC-yk9ix]

Yeah. So no appeal for you he must suck. Would LOVE to know what’s in your music collection genius. 😊

[@kellymaher3355]

@PC-yk9ix culture club, metallica. Ice cube, Paul simon, the cure, eminem, Bob Marley, Frank zappa, pantera, Kate bush, skrillex, powderfinger, Queen, and some others

[@kellymaher3355]

@@PC-yk9ix taste is subjective..yet I have the best taste. By the way U2 suck loads of shit also.

[@PC-yk9ix]

The Cure, Queen, Maybe some Bob Marley. The rest . . .

[@mastodon.social]

This Video...get's to the Heart...of Why You shouldn't invest emotionally in Musicians and Artists personal "backstory." Take the Art that is given and make it your own. The Man is Creative, but Caustic, I cannot help that. What happened in a Bar, with a Drunken Sot, should not be a Life Story. I've made it clear that I support Multiculturalism, as the best way forward for Humanity. When I want to Rage a bit, I turn to Elvis, that's all. Mox Nix

[@Mark28644]

"2-Tone, a London based SKA revival"??!! Wrong, 2-Tone was based in the Midlands, in Coventry.