Inside Music: What Are You Listening To?
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Elvis Costello
Hometown: London - Birkenhead - New York
Instrument: Guitar and Shouting

What five albums or singles are in heavy rotation for you now?

  1. Cliff Edwards and the Disney Studio Chorus's "When You Wish Upon a Star"
  2. Lucinda Williams' "Unsuffer Me" (from "West")
  3. Scritti Politti's "The Boom Boom Bap" (from "White Bread Black Beer")
  4. Yolanda Adams' "Victory"
  5. Mighty Sparrow's "Harry in the Piggery"

What one song or album can you always listen to and how did you find it?
"The Winds Cries Mary" by Jimi Hendrix. It was a hit single in the United Kingdom.

What was the first record you ever bought and do you still have it?
The "Twist and Shout" EP from the Beatles -- absolutely.

What was the first live show you ever saw?
Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, the Fourmost and Cilla Black on a NEMS package tour at the Kingston Granada in 1963

What was the best live show you ever saw?
Tom Waits at the Folie Bergere, Paris

Do you have any guilty pleasures you'd care to reveal?
1950s English children's records. Very weird and scary.

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