This should be interesting. Roz was nice enough to ask to use some of my research into the 1981 festival , featuring you know who. It's due out in June .
Elvoid, meanwhile was lurking about in the doorway of his dressing room, a wide brimmed trilby pulled downover his shades, the collar of his KGB overcoat pulled up around his ears. He looked like he might come over at any time and ask us to hand over the plans of the tractor factory.
In March 1986 , Allan interviewed Elvis ( who was promoting King Of America)
That was a real low point , that whole time. I was really ill. I was drinking too much and taking too many drugs. I don't think I knew my mind at all. I was very unhappy. If you constantly wake up with hangover after hangover you can't think at all in the end. I don't think I was thinking very much at all then. I just had an opinion.
Allan Jones permits me to share this, via Facebook
MM photographer Tom Sheehan took this picture of me with Elvis that afternoon. Jake Riviera must have been elsewhere, shouting at someone.
Would have been great if the whole show had been recorded - if only to see the mad fans bombarding the stage with beer cans and Elvis just playing to try and calm them down as reported by Allan Jones in the Melody Maker: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... y_11,_1981
Still seems there might have been a professional recording of the whole show made . I’m increasingly frustrated- what’s the point if keeping these pro shows under wraps ( shows such as second El Mocambo, RAH with the RPO, the second Palamino show from Feb 1979!) They’re unlikely to ever garner more interest as time goes by, as more of us who remember and care about these shows shake off this mortal coil and the commercial value must be ever diminishing ! Maybe this will never happen because of the lack of success of the reissues with the second live disc - just seems a shame really ! The finding of the excellent “Strict Time” recording at Macroom was the work of a committed fan though John and a great effort ! Thumbs up