Elvis Costello

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We've got a favorite from the Bullseye archives to kick off the week: Elvis Costello. Costello grew up surrounded by music. His mother ran the record section of Selfridges, and his father was an accomplished working musician. As Costello describes in his memoir, Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, he didn't intend to make music himself, but felt eventually drawn to it. The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter and record producer has enjoyed a long career, working on his own and collaborating with other musicians like Burt Bacharach, Paul McCartney, and Annie Lennox. Elvis Costello joins Jesse to talk about his father's career and love of music, why Alzheimer's in his family inspired him to write the book, and who knows him by his birth name, Declan McManus.

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0:00.0	Hey, all it's Jesse, the host of Bullseye with Jesse Thorn.
0:03.3	Maybe you have heard of me.
0:04.8	Quick announcement, we're really excited to share it with you.
0:07.3	We're going to be doing a very special live episode of Bullseye.
0:11.5	It's going to be Friday, February 15th at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon.
0:16.9	What are you going to see?
0:17.6	If you go to Portland, Oregon to see this show, you will see me live on stage,
0:21.7	talking with folks like Cory and Tucker from Slater Kinney,
0:24.6	Director Lance Bangs, writer Bill Oakley, Simpson's legend.
0:28.7	We will also have live music from Rose Blood and Live Comedy from Katie Wen.
0:33.6	It's going to be a blast and a half.
0:35.8	It's also part of a big podcast festival called Listen Up Portland.
0:38.8	Tons of other great podcasts are playing at it too.
0:41.0	Our pals with the doughboys among others.
0:43.0	So again, that's Friday, February 15th at Revolution Hall in Portland, Oregon.
0:47.8	7pm, tickets are on sale now.
0:50.5	Get them at listenupportland.com.
0:53.2	And thanks.
0:55.2	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
1:07.2	I'm Jesse Thorn. It's Bullseye.
1:17.2	I'm going to share one of my favorite recent Bullseye interviews with you.
1:20.7	It's with Elvis Costello.
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