Elvis Costello
Appearances
Fresh Air
Questlove Digs Into 50 years Of 'SNL' Musical Hits (And Misses)
Here's Elvis Costello. In the dress rehearsal, we did a song that was on my first album, but I thought it sounded a little too slow. It was a medium-tempo song, and I didn't think it was exciting enough. And I realized, this show is live. We can do anything we want.
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Questlove Digs Into 50 years Of 'SNL' Musical Hits (And Misses)
Calling Mr. Oswald with a swastika, that do-do-do's, I'll bake on some wafers. I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, there's no reason to do this song here.
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Questlove Digs Into 50 years Of 'SNL' Musical Hits (And Misses)
All of this stuff, it builds up in legend in the retelling. But I didn't come out there to give a political lecture. You know, I came out to kind of shake it up.
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Questlove Digs Into 50 years Of 'SNL' Musical Hits (And Misses)
As we finished the song, the initial reaction in the moment was, I think we better get out of here. Somewhere in it, somebody said in anger, you'll never work on American television again. But the idea I was banned from television is nonsense.