I just watched a rather corny but humbling film called The Family Man – with Nicholas Cage made around 2000. At the end was some Elvis Costello music. I’ve always respected Elvis and some of his music is quite special for me. I missed a lot of his early stuff, just simply being too young to get into it at the time.

I bought Spike when I was about 15, loved it a lot. It seemed to have a broad range of Elvis’s style from snappy pop to hard edge rock to delicate ballads. I think for me, at 15, this was a breath of fresh air for me away from the pop charts. Since then, I’ve always kept my ears open whenever I hear his distinct and mature voice.

Now, I am listening to The Juliet Letters again, which I haven’t heard for maybe 15 years. I remember seeing something on TV about it, the songs are letters, diverse and expressive, they have been made into song with accompaniment by The Brodsky Quartet

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