Elvis Costello

Well, about 2010, I told people I was going to concentrate on live performance. I think that was coming to terms with the fact that the model that we had lived by for the previous years was no longer in existence. That was you made a record and then you went out on the road and you played the music of that album folded into your general repertoire.

sometime around then, maybe it was the way the record world itself was changing, that stopped happening. And so I put my work into first the revival of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook because it put all of my songs in play and left them to chance, literally. Then I was completing this book I'd been working on for a long time. I started to feel as if everything was about

sometime around then, maybe it was the way the record world itself was changing, that stopped happening. And so I put my work into first the revival of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook because it put all of my songs in play and left them to chance, literally. Then I was completing this book I'd been working on for a long time. I started to feel as if everything was about

sometime around then, maybe it was the way the record world itself was changing, that stopped happening. And so I put my work into first the revival of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook because it put all of my songs in play and left them to chance, literally. Then I was completing this book I'd been working on for a long time. I started to feel as if everything was about

using what you had and adding into it, and you could change the focus. You were no longer worried about, oh, I've got to play the hit single, you know?

using what you had and adding into it, and you could change the focus. You were no longer worried about, oh, I've got to play the hit single, you know?

using what you had and adding into it, and you could change the focus. You were no longer worried about, oh, I've got to play the hit single, you know?

Although, on the other hand, even the casual Elvis Costello listener, not the committed fan, Has 34 albums that you can sample and move around in.

Although, on the other hand, even the casual Elvis Costello listener, not the committed fan, Has 34 albums that you can sample and move around in.

Although, on the other hand, even the casual Elvis Costello listener, not the committed fan, Has 34 albums that you can sample and move around in.

No, you know what? I'm completely at ease with the balance between the old and the new. There's another way of looking at streaming is it's radio with all the unpleasant talking taken out.

No, you know what? I'm completely at ease with the balance between the old and the new. There's another way of looking at streaming is it's radio with all the unpleasant talking taken out.

No, you know what? I'm completely at ease with the balance between the old and the new. There's another way of looking at streaming is it's radio with all the unpleasant talking taken out.

Don't put me out of business here.

Don't put me out of business here.

Don't put me out of business here.

And it's not an advertising man's idea of what the playlist should be. It's the listener's idea of what the playlist should be in the most cases.

And it's not an advertising man's idea of what the playlist should be. It's the listener's idea of what the playlist should be in the most cases.

And it's not an advertising man's idea of what the playlist should be. It's the listener's idea of what the playlist should be in the most cases.

Well, you've recorded a new album, and you talk about the story of an album. How do you view the story of Hey Clockface? Hey Clockface, the title track is deriving from Fats Waller. You're nobody's nostalgist, but you're drawing on a musical history. You're writing about time, which seems to be a big theme in this record.