European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Elvis costello turns into Ema costello it cultivating anew image. By Manly Campbell associated press Elvis costello. Considered the most talented songwriter to emerge fro English new wave Rock has released two records this year with songs he considers to be More compassionate than usual King of America was released As Spring co produced with Tbone Burnett and using country studio musicians. It s a More open record More Clear lyrically and More generous in emotion costello said. There Are not so Many mean songs on it. Some of my most successful songs have been quite malevolent those things Are in me like in everybody else when Start thinking about angry things i become meaner. I be got some pretty mean songs lying fast Ewing away in my son bag. You  blood and chocolate costello s 13lh up in the United Stales uses his Long time band Tho attractions. I very much want the new record to be successful because i be had Lew commercial successes he said Over the last couple of years 1 Haven t been doing songs of great emotional substance. People s feelings have been Strong Lor More vivid material thai came earlier in my career. I Haven t gone 1o the hearts of people. The ones they get excited about Are the old songs  the Columbia record was no. 74 with a Bullet on the oct. 25 Best Selling Chart and has been applauded by music critics. Some people do their washing up to records said costello who minks his songs require concentrated listening. There s no handbook on How to listen to my records but i think in is unlikely people Wash up to  an Aura of mystery and unavailability has surrounded costello through much of his career. Ii was or avoiding having to do interviews a said. They had written the article before they came to you. There was very Lille Point in saying anything ii was easier to Luster being difficult or mysterious or violent or All three so people stayed away from you. I was working at a very furious Pace. Let them Wrilon the stupid nonsense they were going to write anyway. All i wanted to do was got on with the  costello lives in London. I put his real name deccan Mcmanus. On King of America. I m 32.1 was 22 when i started. It s a Way of saying that a period of time has elapsed and Thal s my name. You re not to Lake my name changing too seriously. There s no psychoanalytical reasoning behind  about changing deccan Mcmanus to Elvis costello he said Mcmanus was hard to say Over the phone the n and m. And teachers had great difficulty pronouncing Declan. My great Grandfather s name was costello. My manager added Elvis like a stunt a life Long Siul. There a a sense of How dare you appropriate that name there was an attraction in that. I thought he Elvis Presley was pretty Good. I never was a Tig fan. His name was t taken out of reverence or disrespect. I be worked wild musicians who were in his band. They were Good Humoured about  co Shelfo s Grandfather came to the United states in the 1930s As a ship s trumpet player. His father was a trumpet player and Singer. I be got a trumpet i be always meant to Lake it up he said. Somebody gave me a gut Lar. 11 has taken up All my time  he left school when he was 18. I was living in Liverpool. I worked for a Bank then a cosmetics firm and then i got in this business. I made my first records while still working he said. I d Lake sick Days off. I gave up the Bank when they said i had to stand outside when the Bullion was delivered and blow a whistle if there was a raid. The first person they re going to shool is the Guy with the  costello s 1981 almost i Ueland this year s King of America Are country i was l born in Kentucky he Eaid. It does t mean the music in t real to me. I have As much right to sing it As anybody. It was All stolen from English and Irish Folk music in the first place " but he does t care for his two 1984 albums. I think punch the clock was ill conceived and very badly arranged. There were some quite Good songs. And the record was t very humorous. Think i m gelling funnier As i m getting belter looking. Goodbye. Cruel world was Well executed and Well produced of Quile slight  costello has recently been doing some record producing for the Irish band the pogues. I m not technically minded As a producer. I m More like a musical director. I grab something with imaginative feeling and Strong emotional Content and capture it. I can describe what i want to hear. To Fione Burnett worked that Way with me. He fold me not to lose my nerve if i failed to get one version Down. He 1od me not to Linker Ullh it. Remember Why i wrote it instead of getting anxious and trying to change  Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday november 19,1986