Elvis Costello - 1978-10-23 - London, UK (FM)

Elvis Costello

& The Attractions

1978-10-23

John Peel Sessions

BBC Studios

London UK

FM Broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Stranger In The House

02. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

03. Really Mystified

04. Radio Radio

Elvis Costello - 1978-10-23 - London, UK (FM)

ENGLAND - When Elvis Costello burst on the scene in the late 1970’s, he quickly took his place as one of the 3 Angry Men of rock, along with Graham Parker and Joe Jackson. His first 2 albums, My Aim Is True and This Year’s Model, may be one of the best 1, 2 punches ever thrown by a new artist. Both albums, which were produced by Nick Lowe of Rockpile fame, cracked the top 40 on the Billboard album charts, and received extensive critical praise. Yet, in the midst of rise as a new wave/punk artist, Costello began to give hints that his future musical directions would be quite different, as evidenced in the FM Broadcast from the John Peel Sessions on October 23, 1978, 41 years ago today. Costello played Stranger In The House, a tune with a country western twang, written with the great George Jones in mind. He also sang I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself was written by Burt Bacharach, who Costello would record with in the late 1990s. The punk rocker had far broader musical ambitions than the gneral punk could have imagined at the time!