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And then I cut it down and I realized a lot of the fun had been taken out of it because then it was more like a serious instruction manual, which, obviously, you know I would not be equipped to teach anybody anything. One version was nearly two hours long and then I realized that's way too long. I think I wrote it out without the stopwatch and I thought I'd include all of my thoughts. What was your process for putting the installment together?Д®lvis Costello: I wrote several drafts of the script. Q: It sounds as if you had a grand time creating вЂњHow to Play the Guitar and YвЂќ because it allowed for storytelling and inflection and sound effects. He expounded on his health, creating his Audible projectВ and his admiration of Bruce Springsteen. Though Costello, 67, endured a prostate cancer scare in 2018 (вЂњIвЂ™m fine вЂ“ IвЂ™m very fortunate,вЂќ he tells USA TODAY), heвЂ™s looking hearty in tortoise-shell glasses and a salt-and-pepper goatee on our Zoom call from his home office in New York, his music library lining the walls. 'Look Now': Elvis Costello releases 30th studio album HeвЂ™s readying a return to the studio with Burt Bacharach вЂ“ his collaborator on the 1998 album, вЂњPainted from MemoryвЂќ вЂ“ and is celebrating the release of вЂњSpanish Model,вЂќ a reworking of his benchmark 1978 album 'This Year's Model'В that features Latin singersВ Luis Fonsi, Juanes, Nina Diaz and SebastiГЎn Yatra and others. The new installment, on Audible Thursday, is one of several Costello sightings. But even for the instrumentally challenged, itвЂ™s a delightful 96 minutes of Costello sharing personal stories with his keen wit and dramatic flair. With his new contribution to AudibleвЂ™s вЂњWords + MusicвЂќ series, вЂњHow to Play the Guitar and Y,вЂќ Costello is bringing a master class of sorts to those who might glean insight about playing music. Brian? IвЂ™ll be listening.Those who have witnessed Elvis Costello in concert or spent time scrutinizing his music would conclude his work is a master class in performing and writing. ThereвЂ™s no way that one wouldnвЂ™t go over well if brought back on the air. But IвЂ™ve got to give the faceless YouTube uploaders credit - I thought IвЂ™d never again hear the Beantown band DogzillaвЂ™s gleeful dismantling of the compromises we make, вЂњLunch With Ed,вЂќ but it can be called right up: вЂњIn the corporate world if you wanna get ahead, youвЂ™re going to have to have. That was a great time and place for music. The airy Cocteau Twins? I was an early adopter. IвЂ™m a square now, but back then I was a young dude living in Boston, working at whatever job I could find within walking distance, seeing bands, and listening to an alternative radio station out of Lynn (where, coincidentally, the English settlers of Southampton sailed from) the call letters of which I canвЂ™t recall and prefer it that way. (They sampled spaghetti westerns, for crying out loud.) Or deeper tracks from some of the best-written pop-rock albums of the decade, like Elvis CostelloвЂ™s вЂњBlood and ChocolateвЂќ or Joe JacksonвЂ™s thematic вЂњBig World,вЂќ his three-sided album recorded live. Listening to Cosgrove - also born during the Johnson administration, IвЂ™m guessing - I briefly wondered where else IвЂ™d catch the bands IвЂ™d heard in the go-go вЂ™80s, such as Lone Justice, with a caterwauling Maria McKee, or Big Audio Dynamite, fronted by Mick Jones, once of the Clash, and in those days so innovative. ThereвЂ™s a qualitative difference in pleasure between typing names into the YouTube search box and sheer happenstance over the airwaves, as on some otherwise dispiriting drive up the Island youвЂ™re brought up short by New OrderвЂ™s thrumming, thrilling вЂњLove Vigilantes.вЂќ

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But really, IвЂ™m just a guy who happens to work at The Star, and so I feel free to point out that lately IвЂ™ve been tuning in to Brian CosgroveвЂ™s вЂњAfternoon RambleвЂќ on WLIW, which has been enjoyable not for his saint-like patience with some of those painful interviewees, but more because he similarly, musically, likes to live in the past, say, 1987. ItвЂ™s almost always a mistake for local media to comment on local media.

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