Music Journalists Love Elvis Costello And Hate

You Can Really Bring So Much More To Rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll Is The Most Accepting, Is The Most Fertile Ground For Creating Hybrid Forms Of Music And Hybrid Forms Of Show, If You Draw From Many, Many Different Wells. It's Just Unfortunate So Many Rock'n'roll Stars Only Bother To Learn How To Play Like Led Zeppelin And/or The Rolling Stones And That's What You Get, Disc After Disc And Show After Show.

In The United States, You Can Put On A Cowboy Hat And Join The Country-western Neighborhood. If You're Down Below 14th Street In New York City, That's Bohemian; That's Left-wing.

I Grew Up On Radio, Not Tv.

What's Missing Is The Testosterone. What's Missing Is The Fury. What's Missing Is The Passionate Convicted Commitment. And I Got A Lot Of Mine From My Religious Background. So Y'all Best Stop Imagining The Way Dr. Zorba Looked, Or Some Defenseless Hasidic Jew With A Little Yarmulke On His Head, 'cause That Ain't Here For You.

You Gotta Learn The Alphabet, Backwards And Forwards. And Then The Choice Is Yours, 'cause Last I Looked, The Bible Is Written In The Same Words, The Exact Same Alphabet, As My Favorite Pornography. Choice Is Yours.