Elvis Costello

You know, I kind of realized quickly that that attitude thing that you mentioned, it comes partly from you can hear it even over this line.

There's a sound to my voice, which is the gap in my teeth.

You know, that is a lot to do with the way you say words and sing words, but it also makes you kind of everything sound like it's got an attitude and sort of confrontational when it's not meant to be.

You know, I can exaggerate it like that, but...

Honest to goodness, I've got into trouble with people at passport control or something silly like that where they're going, why are you striking this attitude?

I said, I'm not striking any attitude.

This is my face and this is the way I think.

Nothing I can do about it, you know.

And I think that's what you're referring to.

I see some of the old clips when they rerun them on the BBC.

And it's comical, you know, because...

We're doing our best to put the song over, even though we were just opening our mouths.

And the BBC didn't have the capability to record so many bands in one episode of Top of the Pops.

At some stage, at one point, they did some of the numbers live with an orchestra.

But not us.

They would never let us play.

My voice was never heard on the BBC.

until Live Aid.

That's the first time my voice was ever heard live on the BBC.

What year was that?