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Article: POP
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1994
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Elvis Costello reunited with the Attractions? "There's people
out there older and grizzlier than us," Costello points out in the
hotel bar, at the corner table to which he has removed himself to
escape a nearby smoker. He is wearing a dark suit, smart but not
flash, and talking in a torrent, rushing cheerfully from topic to
topic - the virtues of a thumping heavy metal guitarist like
Aerosmith's Joe Perry over a technical boff like Joe Satriani; Alex
Ferguson's refreshingly up-tempo views on Jimmy Hill; the various
absurdities of the security system at Birmingham airport. Bearing
out his own statement, he looks young at 39, entirely without
grizzle.
Since the Attractions got fed up with ...