I’m like… a hungry dog that’s following you everywhere and you won’t feed me but you won’t let me starve either.
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Let me set the scene: the SNL announcer says: "Once again here's Elvis Costello" as the band launched into a slightly hyper version of "Less Than Zero". Elvis is wearing a grey jacket with a dark tie and a striped shirt, plus narrow-leg blue jeans. As Elvis reaches the line about "there's a vacancy waiting in the English voodoo" he stops short, not quite getting the word 'voodoo' out as he starts to turn, yelling frantically "Stop! Stop!" to the Attractions. The second "stop" is almost inaudible as he has his back to the microphone by this point. Having gotten the band's attention Elvis turns back to the audience and rather earnestly announces "I'm sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen, there's no reason to do this song here". He then turns back towards the band and says "OK, Radio Radio... 1, 2, 3, 4" and the band crash, slightly awkwardly, into the opening chords of "Radio Radio".
Cue Lorne Michaels tearing his hair out (makes a change from sucking on that pinky) and saying to the crew "Stop him! He is e-vil! The fru-its of the de-vil". Well, okay, we don't get to actually see that bit! A pity. Instead we get to see Elvis getting all intense with the TV camera,and scaring all the little girls, while everyone else in the audience thinks, "Who is this freak?" (thanks DA!). Short of pulling the plug, Michaels is powerless to stop the unplanned change in the show and so has to let the song run its course, no doubt throwing the network schedules all out of wack, as the total running time has now been blown out by Elvis first starting and then aborting a song and then substituting an even longer song in its place! Almost a pity that Elvis didn't improvise a couple of extra verses just to really send Michaels over the edge.
"This is my dream... playing a rocking routine..."
sn: m3superdragkid
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