My mate -wot works in rocknroll - reckons it's FIFTY YEARS since the Pistols first played at the 100 Club. Meaning you have to buy my book about growing up through #punk. (It's good, honest!)

#music #protest #books / #Lydon #Weller #Costello etc
#PowerChords

My Brave Face (Original Demo) by Paul McCartney & Elvis Costello on Apple Music Song · 1989 · Duration 2:40

McCartney and Costello writing and singing and strumming how can you not love this ❤️
#mccartney #costello #musicsky

Mid-life crises manifested themselves in the purchase of TWO PAIRS of brothel-creepers. One in an outrageous red. & guess what? MASSIVE IRRESISTIBLE #EARWORM, today:

music.youtube.com/watch?v=pS8o...

#Costello #RedShoes #music #earworms

Elvis Costello omaggia i Blondie alla 39ª edizione del Tibet House Benefit Cover version e tributi musicali

Elvis Costello sings Blondie

#cover #costello

Remembering Lou Costello, born March 6, 1906 and passed away March 3, 1959.

Full Post
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#TodayInNerdHistory #March6 #loucostello #abbottandcostello #Costello #LouisFrancisCristillo #LouKing #HereComeTheCoEds #BuckPrivates #HoldThatGhost #WhoDoneIt

#Howard #Costello #LNP created their own
“weapon of mass destruction”
#auspol

The Imposter 7" vinyl

Vinyl of the Day
The Imposter
Pills and Soap b/w Pills and Soap (extended)
Imp001 1983
The Imposter was Elvis Costello!
#vinyl #collections #elviscostello #costello #punk #newwave

I propose we call overheat situations #AbbitsnHowards shame #Costello never challenged as that would have been #ironically perfect #auspol

‘Armed Forces’: Elvis Costello’s Tonic For The New Wave Troops For a slice of superior, cerebral pop-rock of the late 1970s, look no further than Elvis Costello's third album 'Armed Forces.'

‘Armed Forces’: Elvis Costello’s Tonic For The New Wave Troops Nick Lowe's assured production kept the delivery crisp and disciplined, but live and vital, on a record that enhanced Costel...

#Features #Google #News #Stories #Classic #Pop #Elvis #Costello #Nick #Lowe #On

Origin | Interest | Match

I, as a music-lover & rhythm guitar-player, wrote about growing up through #punk & #newwave. Probs in the hope that you guys would laugh a bit, but still feel the power & import of #protest #art.

#PowerChords #music #books #Costello #Strummer #Weller #Lydon

www.amazon.co.uk/POWER-CHORDS...

The Passions of Carol (1975) // dir. Shaun Costello pierppasolini: > _**The Passions of Carol**_**(1975) // dir. Shaun Costello**

‘The power of #music & ideas, pouring in to teenage life’.

*Contains views* on #Lydon #Weller #Costello #Thatcher #MarkESmith.

’A life set to music. Beautifully told’ -
@memorialdevice

#books #punk #philosophy #protest

www.amazon.co.uk/POWER-CHORDS...

Coronation Street extends Becky's story with new update on Costello Is the net closing in?

#CoronationStreet extends #Becky 's story with new update on #Costello share.google/XS6vWlDNYN2D... #Corrie

I’m on the wireless tomorrow- @purewestradio.bsky.social
with MC @malcolmcawley.bsky.social after 7pm.

Don’t panic. My 15 minute slot is diluted by *actual music from #Clash #Buzzcocks & #Costello so… yaknow.

Will be okay. 👍🏻 💥 🎸

#localradio #music #books #PowerChords

Apex #Costello & very articulate of punk's mighty protest agin pornographic blandness..

'& the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anaesthetise the way that you feel'.

#RadioRadio #PowerChords #punk #protest

Want to know more about #PowerChords? Check out the pics/covers. The playlist tells you. The quotes tell you.

#music #books #punk #philosophy #politics #Lydon #Weller #Costello #Thatcher #MarkESmith 📖 💥 🎸

‘Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning / You drink yourself insensitive & hate yourself in the morning’.

Oof. Genius.

#Costello #earworms #SongsWithMeaning

Strong #earworm, this morning. Apols but probs another #PowerChords connection (🙄). Wrote about #ElvisCostello’s propensity for Songs With Meaning, in the book. This is one of many.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Jh...

#Costello #earworms #manoutoftime

Wereld en wandel van Elisabeth Costello Wereld en wandel van Elisabeth Costello, een roman van Coetzee. Uiteraard met zijn visitekaartje van ethische en morele vraagstukken.

De oude John #Coetzee selecteerde een aantal Elizabeth #Costello- verhalen en schreef ook een paar nieuwe. Dat leverde een eigenzinnige verhalenbundel op: boekenkrant.com/recensie/wer...

Racing towards publication day for #PowerChords. Buy it at your fave #indie #bookshop or find an online site that’s working. (🤷🏻‍♂️)

*Contains views* on #Lydon #Strummer #Weller #Costello #Thatcher & #MarkESmith. & everything else that made growing up through #punk & #newwave special.

#music #books

#PowerChords #podcast presentation. For your delectation & delight. A book launch, in fact.

bowlingatvincent.com / sportslaureate.co.uk

#music #books #Lydon #Weller #Costello #Thatcher #MarkESmith
#booksky

#PowerChords; a book launch #podcast.

sportslaureate.co.uk

The meaning behind the moaning.

#music #books
#punk #newwave #Rotten #Pil
#Costello #Weller #Strummer #MarkESmith *etc etc*
#booksky

Sport done so check out my book launch warble - 12 inch single version. (Or should that be album?)

On #PowerChords.

sportslaureate.co.uk - Universe #Podcast.

#music #books #punk #newwave
#Lydon #Weller #Costello #Strummer #MarkESmith

No 2 on that list? One of the greatest (& maybe most subversively submerged?) #protest songs in the history of #music.

open.spotify.com/track/7LvXph...

#Costello / #newlacesleeves / #PowerChords #books

‘A life in #music. Beautifully told’ -
@memorialdevice.bsky.social

Yup. It’s a music-lover’s book, first & foremost. Then an ode to #punk, #newwave & the instinct to #protest.

Order at your fave indie #bookshop - or here:
amazon.co.uk/dp/183615433...

#books #Lydon #Costello #Jam #Clash #Fall

Frank Costello

#OTD (Nov 06) in 1957, a U.S. tax court orders the payment of $175,000 in back taxes by the #New Orleans area #BeverlyClub, operated by Frank #Costello (shown), Philip #Kastel, Carlos #Marcello and others.

#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians