Artist of the day: Elvis Costello and The Attractions
OK, so I guess times have changed a bit… while W. and I were waiting at the paint counter at The Home Depot this past Saturday, for just the right shades of Americana blue and Antique White to be mixed for W.’s bedroom, and Innuendo purple and Zephyr pink for K.’s bedroom, I heard the familiar strains of Elvis Costello and The Attractions performing Radio Radio over the store’s piped in music. Wow. The same song that a rebellious angry young man Elvis performed on Saturday Night Live instead of Less Than Zero, an act that got him banned from NBC for many years to come, the same song that I saw the rebellious angry young man Elvis performed at The Tower Theatre back in April 1979 in my junior year of high school, the same song that for me captured the angst and energy of the punk and new wave music scenes, the same song that I used to blast on my stereo while playing the This Year’s Model album, was being piped to entertain the shoppers at The Home Depot on a Saturday afternoon. I doubt that anyone else noticed the irony.
Elvis finally re-appeared on SNL, interrupting The Beastie Boys, to perform… what else? Radio Radio.