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From: KNIGHT@MAINE (Michael Knight)
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Subject: Elvis Costello mainstream????!!!
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Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 09:08:10 EDT
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Hofmann writes:
>                          Crawford lists Elvis Costello, the Who and
>other mainstream rock acts as his influences.

Flame on!!!

Elvis is one of the last people I'd accuse of being mainstream. Sure he
had a big hit with Punch the Clock, but that's the only really big album.
If he were really mainstream, you'd hear more stuff of his on the the
comercial top-xx stations. Course I don't listen to that drivel any more
than I have to so maybe I'm missing it. Doubt it though. I've been a
Costello fan since '78 so I think I know what I'm saying. He has much
more of a cult following than anything else.

Mainstream? Be real.

Next thing I know you'll be calling Peter Gabrial mainstream, speaking
of which I got tickets to the 11-21 concert in Worchester. Just barely.
I've heard from some friends that it sold out and they booked a second
show for Saturday 11-22 for which they got tickets. Guess it's just the
price of success. Hope he plays some stuff from 'The Lamb lies down on
Broadway'; it should really flip out the tender braincells of the lollie-
pop preppie yuppie types who're going, but who haven't heard any of
Gabrials 'other-stuff'.

Flame off...

Michael Knight

'Enter the world of man, who does not exist...' The KnightRider.