Elvis Costello | interview | The Hoover building | What is Punk? | Good Afternoon

Elvis Costello | interview | The Hoover building | What is Punk? | Good Afternoon | 1977

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Жыл бұрын

Some extracts from an interview between 'Good Afternoon' presenter Mavis Nicholson and singer Elvis Costello
First shown: 27/09/1977
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@TJH3113 9 ай бұрын

That woman was an incredible interviewer.

@hugh-johnfleming289 9 ай бұрын

The best of them, and it is a rare commodity, LISTEN. Most simply rattle of their query from notes and then prepare for the next opportunity...

@DorisDay-lw4xs 5 ай бұрын

She did a fascinating one with David Bowie circa his Lodger era. Its on here somewhere.

@dbentleyto95 3 ай бұрын

A true artist and a fantastic performer. His concerts are epic each in their own way. And he's still kicking it! Fan since 78

@DouglasRichardson-er4ky 7 ай бұрын

Elvis Costello is brilliant love his music and world view, he produced The Specials album around this time he was waaaaaay ahead of his time amazing musician happy holidays to all the Elvis Costello fans 🤓🎅🏼⛄🎄

@hugh-johnfleming289 9 ай бұрын

A simple observation... Having seen 'Costello' twice, once in the late '70s and again the late '90s, we were given two distinct entity. The former was angry and full of contempt. Now this was the end of a long tour in Los Angeles and it is often the case with so many acts. He played a tight, professional 40 minute set and blazed off the stage. The latter, two decades removed, was the kindest, ine of the most generous, performances I have ever seen. He told stories and jokes and played for hours like an old pro. It was akin to sitting with friends, strumming and singing sround a camp fire, with some amplifiers, etc ...

@L0REN0R2Z0RR0 5 ай бұрын

Someone once said "If the young Elvis Costello had a time machine, he'd travel to the future and kill the old Elvis Costello" :D

@bruceradz 2 ай бұрын

Awesome analogy

@musicmakesmysoulfly Жыл бұрын

This is priceless. Elvis at 23!

@beryltheperil2185 11 ай бұрын

Looks about 18 at the most 🤓

@garfunkle5447 9 ай бұрын

What a great musician/artist. Still at my top 10. He so many great song.

@FrontmanVideo 8 ай бұрын

I happened across this video and I'm glad I clicked on it. That was really cool! Elvis is a very intelligent, real dude!

@frodo261 4 ай бұрын

"Im not Angry...anymore". Excellent interview. Declan McManus is very articulate

@4-dman464 Жыл бұрын

Ah Mavis Nicholson. She was always good was Mavis Nicholson. She died last year age 91.

@randybackgammon890 11 ай бұрын

What an attractive woman always loved her🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@slygreen6227 10 ай бұрын

Yes, I always enjoy her interviews. She did a very nice one with Kenneth Williams in 1980.

@johnheath4305 10 ай бұрын

Genius on so many levels

@hankblumenkranz8762 6 ай бұрын

Astounding first tv interview. Required watching for any performer of any kind

@ROCKINGMAN Жыл бұрын

Remember the big hit Oliver's Army back in '77 strangely the year of the passing away of king Elvis Presley whom I'm a fan of. When I saw Elvis Costello sing Alison with Elvis Presley's guitar on the Johnathan Ross show with Priscilla Presley and Danny Dyer I thought it was a great bit of TV and became more of a fan. I saw Elvis Costello yesterday in Berwick Street, with his young son, I presume, said hello to him, a real nice guy.

@jamesdean1143 Жыл бұрын

“Oliver’s Army”, which Radar Records released on 5 January 1979, is from his third studio album, “Armed Forces”.

@jamesconnolly1201 7 ай бұрын

HIS FIRST INTERVIEW WITH A SOPHISTICATED WOMAN ASKING SMART PREPARED QUESTIONS. I LOVE THIS LADY AND E.C. IS SO ADORABLE.......

@SteveM-ly7oy 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting guy. And cut Mavis some slack, she'd been listening to the album and trying to I guess understand it, if that were possible. She looks at him with a combination of interest, shock and wonderment. What an intelligent young man. It's sad, and shocking, too, to see that this is not even fifty years ago, and we are now in 2024 absolutely light years away in the level of culture. You could not have an interview or interviewer now like this. There would be dumb questions, interruptions, questions asked and then the word " because" inserted to make the question more like a bloody statement from the interview. In Britain today, we have no culture, because most people don't have any concept of patience, intellect or manners. As for being properly educated, forget it. A great watch, but makes me so depressed, too.

@nongthip Ай бұрын

He's 23 I was 13, and didn't get to appreciate his work until I was late-teens, but as young as he and I were back then, a lot of his songs resonate in a surprisingly similar way now as back then. And without fawning too much, I'm still struck that someone so relatively young could be so articulate and cool calm calculated in the context of songs which carry such understated yet strong emotions and opinions. I can still listen to and sing along with so many of the songs even now that I'm 60, it becomes almost timeless, like I can go back to being 18-20 and still relate to them now like hardly any time has passed. That's a special talent on his part indeed.

@pete7164 Жыл бұрын

Holy SH!T! I had never seen it before, but he DOES look like a young Woody Allen!!!!

@michaellorenzen8200 10 ай бұрын

he certainly had British teeth

@kobusdutoitbosman6240 3 ай бұрын

Really great TV interviewer and he’s most certainly a very ‘weird & wonderful fella’ ‼️ 👊🔥 🪖

@ambulocetusnatans Жыл бұрын

Wow, he looks so young. Now I feel really old.

@jeffryphillipsburns 10 ай бұрын

He IS so young-and you ARE really old.

@martinkristensen8398 7 ай бұрын

Every time i look at elvis he reminds me of buddy holly

@williamthelast1 4 ай бұрын

Buddy holly OK for the look !! But Elvis is so much talented than the very talented Buddy !!!

@owenwilberforce6138 Ай бұрын

Here after almost being done with his autobiography. He has an intelligence about music that is astonishing. His father was a singer for show bands and had a jazz background. He made his way into the world of music as a fan and lover of everything from the Beatles to Dylan and Joni Mitchell, and his understanding of both jazz and classical music is also profound. His lyrics are challenging, his melodies never predictable, and his performances are always full of emotion and energy. While he wasn’t punk per se, he was cut from the ‘77 era and he had the energy in him to withstand the scrutiny of punks and pop music fans. I am utterly impressed with his humility which belies his immense talent. A man out of time and for all seasons, is the prolific songsmith Declan MacManus.

@StevieZero 3 ай бұрын

Wish Id been that switched on when I was 23

@bogocero 3 ай бұрын

Its not a matter of life or death, what is, what is 👌🏼

@paulmartin3553 Жыл бұрын

do u have the whole interview including songs?

@DorisDay-lw4xs 5 ай бұрын

I was really into EC up to and including Blood And Chocolate then never went further, besides the Burt Bacharach album. What ones after B&C are worth checking out ? My favourites are This Years Model and Imperial Bedroom.

@macguffinman1 2 ай бұрын

If those are your favorites, you might like 2 of his most recent 3: Look Now from like 2018 and The Boy Named If from about 2 years ago. Extraordinary stuff.

@simfaithguitar1 11 ай бұрын

A pop singer?? That was funny! The Dean of New Wave !

@jeffryphillipsburns 10 ай бұрын

New wave IS pop.

@jeffryphillipsburns 10 ай бұрын

Then again, so is punk. Jazz, classical, and authentic folk (folk without guitars and chords and songwriters) and their ethnic equivalents are not pop. All the rest is pop.

@josephdykes1820 4 ай бұрын

New Wave was punkified pop during the death of disco

@hv1225 4 ай бұрын

@@josephdykes1820 Disco only died in the US.

@josephdykes1820 4 ай бұрын

@hv1225 I stand corrected. I had forgotten about discos longer life elsewhere. Elvis Costello didn't really have much fame here until the early 80's with the aid of MTV

@wpollock1 7 ай бұрын

I thought that he would state why the Hoover Facrory? I thought I would hear that, but no.

@Bat_Boy Жыл бұрын

We need EC to save todays music.

@littleripper312 Жыл бұрын

No we don't. There are tons of great new artists if you stay away from the top100. I love Costello but I'm sick of people claiming old music is the only good art ever made and everything today sucks. I think it's because people can't get past the music they hear when they're in their teens perhaps.

@Riddle99-v7q Жыл бұрын

@@littleripper312100%. I've been thinking about making a playlist of good new rock songs to post anytime when someone says new music is bad overall lol.

@michaellorenzen8200 10 ай бұрын

@@Riddle99-v7qand who today holds a candle to Elvis Costello circa '77-'82

@stugg 9 ай бұрын

@@littleripper312 I'm all ears. Any recommendations?

@DouglasRichardson-er4ky 7 ай бұрын

... he is only 1 man, he's great, but all the bad music can't be saved 😏

@johnoleary8751 7 күн бұрын

She was in Faulty Towers as the flirtatious French woman to Basil Faulty

@jeffskywalker2495 8 ай бұрын

Was he named Elvis before or after Elvis Presley Died?

@macguffinman1 2 ай бұрын

Very shortly before.

@grahamlarmour8763 9 ай бұрын

'in the valleys,'...I liked to go down to her valley..haha!!

@mondoenterprises6710 8 ай бұрын

EC was here. No not that EC. This EC! Elvis Costello!!

@plasticweapon 11 ай бұрын

hoover factory.

@michaellorenzen8200 10 ай бұрын

strangest guitar

@jeffskywalker2495 8 ай бұрын

Buddy Holly & Elvis Presley all into 1.

@shpeen8835 2 ай бұрын

@4:20 Yeah but Elvis you were my patron saint when I was a loser. And you showed me that being a little odd can be really cool.

@jacobesmith12 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see that the guardian and new statesmen have changes since his time. Proper down to earth now and no longer into scientific like taxonomies of working class art, whilst drooling for the arts of the more sophisticated classes.

@jeffryphillipsburns 10 ай бұрын

Never the New Stesman, but the Guardian has always been enamored of cheap tawdry gossip.

@jeffryphillipsburns 10 ай бұрын

That’s “never READ the New Stesman”.

@CliffBronson1212 3 ай бұрын

Everyone wants to take you down, when your on top ...stay on the bottom, with the One on top ✝️😅

@AFaceintheCrowd01 Жыл бұрын

He was so sweet and clever and charming here on his first TV interview - and he quickly turned so nasty and arrogant and sour thanks to the coke, ego and alcohol.

@vooveks Жыл бұрын

Interesting - he’s a funny one. I’ve always really rated him as a musician and songwriter, but don’t know anything about his trajectory other than musically. Like you say, in this he just comes across as intelligent, totally un-egotistical and nice. Guess he went the way of a lot of pop/rock stars that get famous and have too much money. Is there a specific incident/interview or whatever that makes you say that, though?

@AFaceintheCrowd01 Жыл бұрын

@@vooveks Yes, every single public pronouncement he made after this brief moment.

@vooveks Жыл бұрын

@@AFaceintheCrowd01 Lol. Ok, fair enough.

@GaryWhittingham Жыл бұрын

@@vooveks IKR, I think it's one of his stalkers or ex-wives ;-)

@macguffinman1 2 ай бұрын

@@vooveks There was an infamous incident in 1979 that changed the trajectory of his career. It was a bad, drunken and possibly coked-up moment when he dropped some racial slurs and got punched out by Bonnie Bramlett. The fallout from it may have both kept him from becoming a Springsteen-sized superstar and saved his life. If you see or read an interview from the early 80s on (and listen to the musical and emotional range of his work) , though, it's clear that he is a brilliant, thoughtful and generous person. (Albeit grumpy sometimes.) Wouldn't overstate the "non-egotistical" though; it's clear along with everything else that he knows he's really good.

@chelebeaqueen 4 ай бұрын

at 4:27 "patron saint for losers" - yeah, they don't need a patron saint. for all the help and guidance they would receive from such an entity, they'd turn around and rip him from limb to limb! i'm glad he stated clearly he was not interested in this kind of employment haha. "the pay ain't good enough!" hahaha

@regplasma7906 Жыл бұрын

Middle class Mavis has no idea what Declan is really talking about and the little tiny crumbs she does pick up on , she disagrees. p.s Mavis looks a bit like Roisin Murphy in this vid.

@michaellorenzen8200 10 ай бұрын

hey at least she gave it a go ! good on her

@DjWellDressedMan 4 күн бұрын

HOW HOW HOW did Elvis ever marry Diana Krall, like water and oil

@dfangirl72 Жыл бұрын

He hasn't changed just gotten older .

@jeffryphillipsburns 10 ай бұрын

Yes, he has. He’s gotten much more articulate, and his musical interests, knowledge, and sensitivity have broadened considerably. Even his accent has changed.

@macguffinman1 2 ай бұрын

@@jeffryphillipsburns You're right but you can see the seeds of that broadening already in his responses in this interview.

@littleripper312 Жыл бұрын

How was his teeth so bad at such a young age?

@duffbaker9554 Жыл бұрын

Though his two front teeth were gapped, I didn't see any signs of rot, looked pretty white to me..

@dfangirl72 Жыл бұрын

I'm not a oh I gotta get his Elvis Costello CDs but I like Costello always have what I like most his teeth .I myself have crooked teeth at 50 yrs so I love when they change because they get money or are told to change .

@jeffkaufman9875 Жыл бұрын

@littler …Imperfect as they may be, he’s got NOTHING on Shane McGowan!..

@MrNewtonian 9 ай бұрын

@@jeffkaufman9875carcass teeth. Like a burnt fence.

@irish66 7 ай бұрын

@@jeffkaufman9875 Bowie and Keith Richards also had teeth issues.