Elvis Costello and The Attractions
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Guest Star (3)
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TFI Friday
Themselves
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Late Night With David Letterman
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S 1:
Ep 104
Show #0104
8/23/82
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S 1:
Ep 104
Show #0104
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Tiswas
Themselves (Archive Footage)
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S 5:
Ep 9
Series 5, Episode 9
11/4/78
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S 5:
Ep 9
Series 5, Episode 9
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TFI Friday
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The Hall of Fame lists what it considers the "Essential Songs" of an artist at the time of their induction. The following are the songs they picked for Elvis Costello and The Attractions when they were inducted on March 10th, 2003 … (listed in the order the R&R HOF website lists them): Alison - Pump It Up - Watching the Detectives - Lipstick Vogue Oliver's Army - Man Out of Time - Shipbuilding - Almost Blue Radio Radio - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
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As Elvis began working on a series of demo recordings for When I Was Cruel, old pal Pete Thomas was there on drums along with Davey Faragher (of "Cracker" fame) on bass. As the album took shape, Steve Nieve was added back into the mix on keyboards. Elvis had more-or-less reconstituted "The Attractions" with Davey Faragher replacing Bruce Thomas, calling this edition "The Imposters".
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"Oliver's Army" (1979) was the highest-charting single of the band's career, peaking at number two in Britain and number 4 in Ireland. Elvis and The Attractions were always an album band in the U.S., never cracking the top 100 on the singles charts.
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Quotes
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Elvis: We had landed in the country ten days earlier. Fresh from a 15-hour journey from London via Los Angeles, we arrived in the Bay Area at mid-evening and were confronted by the unimaginable luxury of a Howard Johnson's motel. The rooms contained king-size beds, colour television, and a bathroom. Our English hotels of that time typically featured narrow bunks with scratchy nylon sheets, a faulty black-and-white TV in the "residents lounge", and a freezing trip down the threadbare carpet to a shared toilet at the end on a dingy corridor. In the words of Chuck Berry : "Everything you want, they got it right here in the U.S.A."
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Elvis: The only structure that was not derelict doubled as the local dancehall. We were using it as a rehearsal room. In two days I would be playing in public for the first time with my new group, The Attractions. The keyboard player (Steve Nieve), a 19-year-old student from the Royal College of Music, was easily the most impressive candidate at the auditions. He had asked to stay to hear the other players and later been discovered curled up asleep among the amplifiers, having quietly demolished a bottle of sweet cooking sherry. He was obviously the man for the job.
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Pete Thomas: In 1977 I was living in Topanga Canyon, California. Elvis's manager, Jake Riviera, came to LA with "The Damned". He played me EC's demos. It seemed like a good time to be in England so I went back and auditioned for EC with the other two Attractions who had answered ads in the Melody Maker. It seemed like we formed in a day.
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