Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Break - Three Days Grace

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Thanx guys. Will be relating to a Clash fan who is learning more about Elvis.

Is there any Elvis song that sounds a lot like The Clash? Or especially like The Clash?

Big Guns (English for Big Pistolas) - Skid Row

Song Of Sand - Suzanne Vega

Rock N' Roll Singer - ACDC

Pop Singer - John Mellencamp

Rattlesnake Shake - Fleetwood Mac. Aerosmith do an admirable version too, leaning into their more funk side.

The trailer for The Great Gatsby looks amazing. I love all that Art Deco stuff. We don't get it until the 30th. Leonardo is going for some big iconic names... Romeo, Hugh Heffner, The Great Gatsby.... he's read all of F Scott Fitzgerald's books, it's well known...

Shake The Devil - Tommy Bolin



One of my very favourite guitarists.

Did Jake Riviera talk Elvis into the name against his better nature, i wonder, because in the fickle pop market they aimed for in those days which was full of one-hit wonders bigshot movers and shakers like Jake Riviera invariably wanted a guarranteed first-time hit as I understand it... I do know t...

He certainly has taken some unusual twists and turns in his career, perhaps that would not have been possible had he been more fully embraced in the beginning. I looked up My Aim Is True on wikipedia to see how close it was to Presley's death, and, damn, it's less than a month before! That must have...

I'm reminded of Ray in the LA Woman documentary, right at the end he says that the Egyptians believe that if you say a dead man's name out loud, he isn't dead... and he says Jim Morrison's name. So now i say 'Ray Manzarek' out loud, before i play some Doors. RIP.

Forgetful Heart - Bob Dylan. Happy 72nd birthday, Bob.

Thanks for that, krm. So, as i can hear a keyboard there, was this mimed? Would kind of defeat the purpose of having Belmont there.

Elvis Costello (aka Declan Patrick Aloysius Macmanus) looked like Buddy Holly, yet picked the same name as Elvis Presley, The King... and rather unfortunately debuting very close to the time that Elvis Presley passed... I would say that this sort of identity crisis could have plagued his chances of ...

I made this thread to provide something of a buffer to the unexpected shock of the sad news of someone's passing - at least you will be a bit readier for it. All posters are welcome to place other obituaries and thoughts of grief and so on here. - - - - - Ray Manzarek has passed away. http://www.huf...

Who was he and why was he needed?

It is remarkable, I pondered as I watched this video: Ej1squ_d_Nk I wonder if after he was done with classical stuff and the beard and looked in the mirror he realized, "hey, I look like Buddy Holly!", and whether he might have played on that a bit... watch the video and ask yourself... Ev...

Jackof All Parades wrote:"You Can Leave Your Hat On"- Randy Newman in honor of his finally being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

I would think that Randy Newman would call out the RNRHOF on being what they are... phoney!



The Full Bug - Van Halen

My father in law used to rave about this record.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - El-Ton John

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That's the story of my life, except it didn't work out with the frontman of the band bit... still working on that...

ps: It's 'my wife and I', never 'I and my wife'. Ladies before gentlemen...

This is perhaps the direction that will bring Elvis great recognition... I mean like on a Keith Urban-like scale (as much as I don't like Keith Urban..).

Then he can get back to the business of doing a true Elvis Costello-in-his-true-rocker-element beat-rock album...