ELVIS COSTELLO
KING OF AMERICA & OTHER REALMS
CAPITALISING ON A REISSUE OF COSTELLO’S MID-80s CLASSIC, THIS SPRAWLING COLLECTION ILLUSTRATES AMERICA’S ENDURING INFLUENCE ON HIS SONGWRITING
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It’s 1986, and Elvis Costello is summarising thoughts of the land behind King Of America’s title. “There’s no country on earth with more righteous and noble principles,” he tells Interview.
“And there’s never been a country where those principles have been abused as horribly.”