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...Costello's recording history is one of those success stories that's satisfying because the artist deserves every bit of acclaim he's received. His first album, recorded with only a bassist and drummer backing him, shocked people in 1977--forces that small hadn't produced such energetic and memorable music in ages. The follow-up only a few months later, This Year's Model, landed on the public almost too soon--it was hard to believe one man could write that many great songs so fast, and record them so well. This Year's Model added an organ...
...SOME OF MY friends sit around every evening and they worry about the times ahead," crooned Elvis Costello in a raspy, tortured voice on his last album. Costello--the little guy in the seedy suit and black plastic glasses--sounds worried himself on his latest release. He's always powered his songs with two emotions, woman-hating sexual frustration and corporate paranoia. On Armed Forces, the paranoia takes over and twists his music into some very strange, chilly shapes and sounds...
Recent weeks have seen television biographies of Judy Garland, Abbott and Costello, Television Reporter and Cancer Victim Betty Rollin, Baseball Player Ron LeFlore, and Sally Stanford, a California madam who was elected mayor of Sausalito. Early next year Elvis Presley, who died only 16 months ago, will re-emerge on ABC in the person of Kurt Russell. Elvis Redux will be followed by an ABC-TV movie with Robert Duvall playing Dwight D. Eisenhower. This month, an all-star acting team will impersonate every President from Taft to Eisenhower in NBC's eight-part mini-series called Backstairs...
...those kids stare at artists like Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Nick Lowe and Blondie, and at least they can tell that these groups have as little to do with the Sex Pistols as the Beatles had to do with the Partridge Family. These artists have almost nothing in common among themselves, though, except vitality, inspiration, and devotion to the short rock song...
Midwest: The Denver Nuggets' shooting gallery of McGinnis, David Thompson, Dan Issel, and new flinger Charlie Scott should outscore and outlast the other entries of the league's weakest division. The Bulls have no superstars, an aging Norm Van Lier, and a new coach in Larry Costello. The Bucks are a year and a center other than Kent Benson away from winning it all. Indiana lost two of its best players (Dan Roundfield and Earl Tatum), leaving none. The Kings finally have all American Phil Ford under contract. Not bad for the worst team in the league...