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Thread started 08/31/01 4:45pm

Elvis Costello's Song Still Without Pop Life

Not sure if it qualifies as news, but apparently Elvis Costello tried once again to get Prince to let him release the version of "The Bridge I Burned" with the "Pop Life" quote for the new Rhino release of "All This Useless Beauty". Oddly enough, the song was Elvis's farewell to Warner Brothers. He describes the situation in the liner notes:

The final song in this sequence is the last track that I recorded for W.B. After the release of this album, it seemed time to leave the label. I negotiated my departure, despite being contracted for one more album. The agreement called for a compilation of my W.B. recordings. Extreme Honey escaped Burbank accompanied by a global promotional budget of an entire $1000. This is about as close as a major record company can legally get to putting a horse's head in your bed. The sole virtue of the release was that it called for the making of a new track, "The Bridge I Burned." This was recorded with a group of musicians and technicians 20 years my junior, including my son Matt, who played bass on the track. The record originally included a four-line quote from the Prince song "Pop Life." Permission has once again been refused for the inclusion of this take. Instead, those bars contain someone shouting through a megaphone. As the song says, there is "a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy."

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