“The press were looking for something to crucify me with, and I fed myself to the lions," said the singer in a rare 1982 Rolling Stone interview, referring to the petty, drunken argument with Bonnie Bramlett, when Elvis shot his mouth off about black music and then was forced to duck as American journalists returned fire. I was skimming through some old Costello articles I had long had on file, not so much in-depth examinations as evasive skirmishes from a time when Elvis spoke to the press infrequently and, it seemed, reluctantly. It was a hastily arranged trip to interview Elvis Costello in the Gresham Hotel. I was in Heathrow Airport, waiting to board a delayed Aer Lingus flight from London to Dublin. Call it coincidence, call it synchronicity.
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