What Elvis did next…
‘If you used to love Elvis, you’ll love this’ is the final line from Phil Hogan’s review of the new Elvis Costello album, Delivery Man (released on Monday).
This means me, I guess. I haven’t actually liked a new Elvis album since, well, probably Spike - and that came out decades ago.
So, even though I don’t really know whether I can trust Phil Hogan, I’m going to give this one a whirl. I really want it to be good.
When you think about it, he’s quite a rarity, our Elvis. Although he’s associated with a particular musical time and movement, he’s one of the few performers who have turned into one-man genres (Bowie is the master of this, Sting is also in the club): dabbling with one genre and another often with mixed success (he’s also just released a classical album), but never losing his identity.
I’m interested by him, and he was a big part of my yough, but I’m possibly not so interested that I’d read this new biography of him, even though it’s apparently rather fine.