Elvis Costello Talks Bob Dylan And Performs Songs At N.Y.C. Film Screening
The post Elvis Costello Talks Bob Dylan And Performs Songs At N.Y.C. Film Screening appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Elvis Costello (R) in conversation with Bob Dylan Center director Steven Jenkins at the Paris Theater in New York City, Sept. 6, 2025. credit: David Chiu Elvis Costello recently recalled his earliest experience with Bob Dylan’s music as a kid growing up in Britain in the 1960s. “I didn’t have the pocket money at the age of 11 to be buying all those records,” he told a packed audience at New York City’s Paris Theater Saturday afternoon. “And when I checked the chart placings of those records [like “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and Like a Rolling Stone”] , all of those records except “Maggie’s Farm” were Top 10 single hits for Bob Dylan. So we were hearing Bob Dylan not as an album artist, but as a singles artist on the Hit Parade alongside Freddie and the Dreamers and Tom Jones and, of cours,e the Beatles and the first records from Motown. And that is how I first heard him.” Those are some of his Dylan memories that the acclaimed British singer-songweriter shared following a one-hour presentation at New York City’s Paris Theater of short films and videos from the Bob Dylan Archive, hosted by Steven Jenkins, the director of the Bob Dylan Center based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Among the footage featuring Dylan over the decades from that presentation was a snippet of Autopsy on Operation Abolition, a 1961 film, which marked his first foray into soundtrack work; a 1963 solo performance of “Ballad of Hollis Brown” on the TV show Folk Songs and More Folk Songs; a blistering take of “Maggie’s Farm” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival with guitarist Mike Bloomfied; a duet with Joan Baez on “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” from the 1976 Hard Rain TV special; a rendition of “When the Night Comes Falling…
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Elvis Costello (R) in conversation with Bob Dylan Center director Steven Jenkins at the Paris Theater in New York City, Sept. 6, 2025. credit: David Chiu Elvis Costello recently recalled his earliest experience with Bob Dylan’s music as a kid growing up in Britain in the 1960s. “I didn’t have the pocket money at the age of 11 to be buying all those records,” he told a packed audience at New York City’s Paris Theater Saturday afternoon. “And when I checked the chart placings of those records [like “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and Like a Rolling Stone”] , all of those records except “Maggie’s Farm” were Top 10 single hits for Bob Dylan. So we were hearing Bob Dylan not as an album artist, but as a singles artist on the Hit Parade alongside Freddie and the Dreamers and Tom Jones and, of cours,e the Beatles and the first records from Motown. And that is how I first heard him.” Those are some of his Dylan memories that the acclaimed British singer-songweriter shared following a one-hour presentation at New York City’s Paris Theater of short films and videos from the Bob Dylan Archive, hosted by Steven Jenkins, the director of the Bob Dylan Center based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Among the footage featuring Dylan over the decades from that presentation was a snippet of Autopsy on Operation Abolition, a 1961 film, which marked his first foray into soundtrack work; a 1963 solo performance of “Ballad of Hollis Brown” on the TV show Folk Songs and More Folk Songs; a blistering take of “Maggie’s Farm” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival with guitarist Mike Bloomfied; a duet with Joan Baez on “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” from the 1976 Hard Rain TV special; a rendition of “When the Night Comes Falling…
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