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Elvis Presley. The King is dead. Long live the King!
Now that marriage is becoming chic again, Zero Population Growth, the group that worries about overcrowding the planet, has launched a pre-emptive counterattack. The November issue of the ZPG National Reporter runs a list of "exceptional" only children in an attempt to bolster the argument of some psychologists that...
IF THERE WERE such a thing as a death wish for albums, this one would have it--it is a record that fairly thumbs its nose at the Intelligent Rock Listener, inside and out. The cover art, for one thing, is nightmarish--bright red lettering, a black-and-white checkerboard...
Elvis Costello is a British rocker in the grand tradition of his namesake, but he infuses that tradition with a deep and unsubtle sense of '70s neurosis. Look at his picture; listen to his lyrics. He is (or would have us believe he is) far gone in bitterness and anger...
IN "ALISON," as in "I'm Not Angry" and throughout My Aim Is True, Elvis Costello anticipates our reactions and responds by ringing changes on them. Comparisons are inevitable--to Presley, from whom he took his name; to Springsteen, and Mick Jagger, and Graham Parker, like all of whom he...