gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Music - Old School iPod)
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Screw it, I'm making today "70s music video day."

December 17, 1977. In one of the most famous spontaneous moments on a usually spontaneity-free live show, Elvis Costello cut short his scheduled performance of "Less Than Zero" and launched into the media-bating "Radio, Radio." In the years since, nobody has been able to agree on who told Costello he couldn't play "Radio, Radio" in the first place, or even whether producer Lorne Michaels ever really vowed to ban Costello permanently from the show for what is, in retrospect, an odd but hardly catastrophic last-second change. Lost in all the hubbub—which eventually died down enough that Costello was invited back, decades later—is how stunning the performance is, with Costello and The Attractions playing so loud, fast, and angry that even the sound mixer can't keep up.

Date: 7 Jun 2007 17:53 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffreyab.livejournal.com
I remember seeing this live, he created a real you are in on a rebellion moment for me.

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