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Elvis costello tell me why2/12/2024 ![]() ![]() I loved The Death of Magic Thinking on your recent US tour. The music industry prefers the orthodox to new ideas One of the gentlemen working there was a fan and he’d written this great setlist on Buckingham Palace notepaper. So, apart from the fact that my mum told me to go and have a laugh, I thought: “I’m going in through the front door.” It doesn’t change my view of the idea of empire as ludicrous and hideous. ![]() My dad went in through the tradesman’s entrance to sing at the Buckingham Palace staff ball in 1962. Look, my grandfather Pat McManus was in the Royal Irish Regiment and died from illness resulting from wounds he got fighting for king and country. It’s just another bauble in my china cabinet, along with the MTV Video Music award, which no one knows I’ve got, either. Does accepting an OBE show you are not the person who wrote Any King’s Shilling ? pipini ![]()
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