Elvis Costello & Elizabeth Banks

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Singer/songwriter Elvis Costello shares his musical influences, which include his father, an accomplished singer and performer. Plus Elizabeth Banks talks about deciding to work on the biopic Love and Mercy, about Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.6	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:14.9	Elvis Costello has led a rich and varied life.
0:19.5	He writes about a lot of it in his new memoir.
0:23.0	Like, have you ever had Christmas with Johnny Cash?
0:28.1	Elvis Costello did one time thanks to his producer, Nick Lowe.
0:32.3	Nick Lowe was the first person who was in a group who I could ask questions of.
0:37.1	I've been around musicians since I was a child, but I had no questions to ask my dad's
0:41.7	colleagues.
0:42.7	And of course, then he became my producer when I was first making records.
0:47.5	Then a couple of years into that, he married June Carter's daughter, Carlyne.
0:52.0	And next thing, the in-laws came for Christmas.
0:54.2	The in-laws of Johnny Cash and June Carter, you know, it was like, and we went to the
0:58.2	door and he was great.
0:59.2	He just introduced himself the way he always did.
1:01.0	A lot of Johnny Cash, I couldn't believe he was saying it to me.
1:03.5	They literally sang, drank, and were merry.
1:07.5	It's Bullseye.
1:08.5	I'll talk with Elvis Costello about his dad, who's a musician too.
1:20.5	He'll talk about his dream job if he hadn't gone into music.
1:23.6	Also about how he kind of got a reputation for being angry.
1:27.7	He says it's something to do with the gap between his front teeth, and also because he's
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