Elvis at his most cruel and unforgiving. Absolutely brilliant!
@ujean56
11 жыл бұрын
Always a favorite of mine. He handles this interview like a true professional. He is obviously far ahead of his interviewer in brains and insight. A classic Costello tune and album. Thanks E.
@Happyhibee1979
11 жыл бұрын
Thatcher destroyed Britain and at least elvis Costello stood up to it
@92RedRevolver
15 жыл бұрын
The anger on his face is superb.
@mmsx
11 жыл бұрын
Brilliantly written...hummed it all day today..but she did the damage so many years ago..and even worse is happening today,.there are few songwriters now who will ever be able to express such distaste and revulsion ..so beautifully....and it has taken many years for it to be to in 'context', but let's not waste energy dancing on the grave of a long-dead soul; Tories are still destroying society..
@wigs2u
9 жыл бұрын
Brilliant song, riveting performance - mad respect for EC.
@scottmtkd9488
2 жыл бұрын
One of the best songs ever written. Elvis' voice is like a beautiful crystal vase teetering on the edge of a mantle. You want to reach out to save it from falling, but it never falls! In 2022, this song could be just as well about Putin, and all autocrats of all time. 💔😡
@tomhwoods
9 жыл бұрын
The real Elvis is not dead. God save the Elvis. There's still real hope for a new democracy in England in 2015.
@peskyquietman7593
8 жыл бұрын
Nine months on and it now seems like a false dawn, the powers that be are using every dirty trick in the book to keep the status quo but we'll keep fighting for real change from this corrupt pseudo-democracy.
@Paddy955
Жыл бұрын
@@peskyquietman7593 I know it's been 6 years since you wrote that but I just wanted to say how much I agree. I'm tired of hearing the word 'democracy' being bandied about totally out of context and not even making sense in any way other than a handy word being used by politicians to gain one-upmanship on each other. Do these people wake up in the morning, look out or their windows and muse about how democratic the weather is today? No. Of course they don't but that's how ridiculously this word is being used by politicians today. What sort of democracy allows folk to vote people in on false promises and lies who then demonstrate their real agenda to crucify their voters and non voters alike, who have no power to hit the off switch and vote them out when they go on to use the powers they've been given by us to destroy us? They're supposed to be our servants not our jailors, and we should have the power to vote them out within a couple of months probationary period.
@southwalesoutdoors
Ай бұрын
Sadly it got even worse after 2012.... Hard to believe.
@friendlyghost3293
2 жыл бұрын
He wrote it in 10 minutes in his head! What a talent.
@Beelzebubbbbles
14 жыл бұрын
Elvis' most brilliant moment, it still has the power to invoke strong emotions - as does his subject matter. Let's give her a state funeral, but only if we can bury her alive.
@mikjanbubble
11 жыл бұрын
can't think why this song is on my mind today
@BlueGrenadeTom
11 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Where's this kind of passion, anger and eloquence now? This country's going nowhere but down. What Thatcher started is still rotting this land of ours. Ours - not theirs. One thing she did well was convince us that politics was for politicians; nothing to do with us. Just ask anyone under 40. Where are our Costellos? Who will speak for us? A choice of two equally rotten parties isn't a democracy; it's a veiled dictatorship.Long life to Elvis.The grave yawns and yearns for Maggie.
@LusciousTwinkle
11 жыл бұрын
Her little babies are everywhere....doing her proud....
@ianreynolds8552
5 жыл бұрын
Are you on this planet
@spanglegranny
16 жыл бұрын
Thank god you put this up! I remembered at the time that I'd never seen such venom in a performance. So pleased to see it again.
@MalcolmLondon1
11 жыл бұрын
Excellent Elvis, my sentiments exactly
@ishtiyaqshukri5114
Жыл бұрын
"Tramp the dirt down" When Elvis sang this song He had Margaret in mind But I'm sending it to Rishi Sunak in Downing Street tonight
@rjmphotographic
12 жыл бұрын
I lived through Thatcher - and I will be jumping up and down with Elvis at the appropriate moment! I remember the spg, I remember Nelson Mandela being described as a terrorist - I'm posting this cos I will forget shortly! I remember milk snatcher and things don't change - all the people banging on about austerity don't understand the word.
@frippp66
16 жыл бұрын
Yes - thanks for posting. I remember seeing this on TV when it was broadcast and it was important to me - I suppose a lot of people felt the same way at the time. It's good to see it again. Great perfomance - I prefer this simple version to the more orchestrated one on the album - the starkness is part of the message. I like the way he's bathed in blue light.
@nipsu1053
11 жыл бұрын
Brilliant song and he did live long enough to carry out this joyous task. Much better song than Ding Dong but the sentiment is the same.
@HandleGF
11 жыл бұрын
The phrase that Trevelyan used about the Irish Famine being the work of “an all-wise and merciful providence” smacks so much of Thatcher and the Protestant thing that good works don’t matter, only faith, or, in her case, fanatical conviction. I can’t help also thinking, though, that the miners’ strike could not be similarly policed today, with all the camera phones.
@broadband0118
11 жыл бұрын
There can be nothing better to do with ones energy but to dance on that bastard's grave. She lives on in the spirit of Blair, Brown, Cameron, Osborne, Clegg and all the rest. So let's just "REJOICE AT THAT NEWS. REJOICE"!!
@tomscottjet
13 жыл бұрын
"when they finally put you in the ground, we'll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down"...for the miners, the neglected working people, and for the millions of youths both in the 80s, 90s and today with no future but anger and the dole queue.
@otleyperson
11 жыл бұрын
You're dead right. Thanks for the reply. It just goes to show how little good came out of the battles that she decided to start. I think the whole country is starting to see that now. Here's hoping for those positive outcomes!
@anwaya
15 жыл бұрын
Costello starts with the image of a child and Thatcher's portrayal of compassion in the photo op. Isn't she precious, isn't she wonderful: the irony is magnificent.
@101gward
11 жыл бұрын
Remember seeing this on BBC2 more years ago than I care to remember. Got to be one of my favourtite KZitem clips. Can't be long now Elvis! Who's in charge of hiring the band at her grave and who's starting the campaign to make this number one the week she dies?
@Exsugarbabe1
11 жыл бұрын
Not a massive fan but he's an insightful, intelligent man who can write a good tune.
@davidstorey2368
3 жыл бұрын
Best song writer ever to come out of this country next to John martyn
@DickyHertz
11 жыл бұрын
My utter lack of concern for any suffering she may have endured is my tribute to her way of life.
@ianreynolds8552
5 жыл бұрын
And yours, were you married to her , you know married
@ianreynolds8552
5 жыл бұрын
I know what you mean , karma. If there s a n after life she wi get a telling from god
@jwsmith4081
3 жыл бұрын
I dedicate this song to Rush Limbaugh.
@amitbasu7516
2 ай бұрын
No, his song is "Thank You Very Much" from Scrooge. kzitem.info/news/bejne/paGnnYuQjaycf4Y
@joshuagcn
15 жыл бұрын
I think it was intentional. Costello´s subtle irony. Besides, Elvis loves to borrow little pieces of music, lyrics or arrangement and put them into his own work. There are lots of examples: "Take a good look at my face" is from one of Costello fave songs, TRACK OF MY TEARS, and appears on TOWN CRYER; BIG SISTER (the fast version of big sister´s clothes) has an accelerated beat copied from the bass line of UNDER MY THUMB, from rolling stones, and so on...
@meercatuk
15 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this interview and performance, and maybe it's my imagination of the time, or modern interpretation of what's now a very different era, or maybe it's some detail lost in the encoding, but what I've remembered for 20 years is the fact that he was spitting the words out The slightly self-concious movements of his eyes were nothing compared to the venom and the physical force that was apparent in the performance, especialy given the standards of the time
@joethelion6016
2 ай бұрын
That woman has no idea how lucky she is
@Hands2HealNow
11 жыл бұрын
An artist soul sent to lead in the way they do best.
@LordGoatAlmighty
11 жыл бұрын
I'm installing itunes just to buy this in the vain hopes it might chart.
@boosh90
11 жыл бұрын
I like that interviewer, like her randy newman interview from around the same time too get intelligent, articulate people, and let them talk, not that hard is it? great stuff all round
@billh6129
5 жыл бұрын
Hope he hands his OBE back! What British Empire?
@halflifeproductionz
13 жыл бұрын
why aren't there more intelligent musicians out there.
@Kwales66
11 жыл бұрын
This Video is more Emotional that the Funeral at St. Pauls
@katherinebruce9130
10 жыл бұрын
.shared this via Google+
@pancrack
15 жыл бұрын
that's it ! i was trying to think what the bell was i could hear...perhaps the funeral bells ringing out across the north come the day : )
@Jiggs2u2
2 жыл бұрын
Savage 💥
@davey8914
6 ай бұрын
But true....
@SciFive
14 жыл бұрын
I look forward to tramping the dirt down. The trouble is, Thatcher's grave will be so covered in piss that the dirt will be muddy.
@GordonDicksonInfinitelawn
14 жыл бұрын
For anyone listening to Front Row on R4 tonight!
@joe47771
3 жыл бұрын
first like
@jimtheskim
11 жыл бұрын
I'd have done it for nowt,just to make sure!!
@baggielee67
11 жыл бұрын
Hooray, where's my spade?
@devourerofbabies
11 жыл бұрын
Well, it's really a 1 party system at this point.
@tombstone2me
11 жыл бұрын
Yes I take your point, in saying it was a non-event I just meant that this is not a political victory for the left. I accept that it is a political moment. And I also accept (as other commenters have pointed out) that maybe once the hangovers have worn off the solidarity of the celebration will linger on and it may lead to positive political activity and outcomes. It's always interesting to watch how the effects of chance and inevitability impact ideology.
@trilobyte3
11 жыл бұрын
Ding Dong the witch is dead
@jamesmain1547
2 жыл бұрын
This is just magnificent, he speaks for the working classes, she was a putrid abomination. I hate her so much.
@joethelion6016
2 ай бұрын
Interview with who? Which British programme?
@123ThisIsMe
15 жыл бұрын
Long time ago ....
@paulbrocklehurst3677
6 жыл бұрын
Do I get the impression that he didn't particularly like Mrs Thatcher?
@ianreynolds8552
5 жыл бұрын
No he does nt
@danneumann3274
2 жыл бұрын
where did you get that idea?
@cbjgdicad1
11 жыл бұрын
the witch is dead
@numinousbookofreview
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, Mr C, but then you accepted an OBE from them.
@frippp66
16 жыл бұрын
Yes - a "state" funeral would be a contadiction wouldn't it!
@terryfookwitt
11 жыл бұрын
JFT96 YNWA.
@paulsavage5057
4 жыл бұрын
This song make me really angry and he deserves the Nobel prize for literature for this song (stupid prize though, it is.)
@realot1
12 жыл бұрын
@italiamia1000 The thatcher years intorduced the self centered capatalistic cancer that has ravaged our society ever since she came into power. We now live in a greed fueled society where the rich are applauded and the poor are ignored. The 1970s were troubled times but unemployment was higher under thatcher and the gap between the rich and poor dramatically widened. You may talk about the economy to measure success I prefer to use our morality and ethics which were lost in 1979
@joshuagcn
15 жыл бұрын
It´s ironic that the melody reminds us of "ISN´T SHE LOVELY?"...
@joncrystal2253
11 жыл бұрын
Bill Hicks on Marketing - You Tube!
@johnscott33
11 жыл бұрын
Where are the Strong? Who are the Trusted ?
@realot1
12 жыл бұрын
birkenheads pride
@TheHealdroad
13 жыл бұрын
her grave will become a public urinal for all time, and i grantee i will be one of the first
@otleyperson
11 жыл бұрын
If it were a non-political event Cameron would not be leading today's pantomime in Parliament, hoping for all the world to harvest some of the cheap admiration washing about in the fragments of British society that still hold tight to her kind of self-centred smugness.
@92RedRevolver
15 жыл бұрын
I think it was intentional? Or do you know that and are just pointing out the irony?
@devourerofbabies
12 жыл бұрын
I take it he doesn't vote Tory.
@28g34ajbsd
14 жыл бұрын
Elvis canceled his two upcoming gigs in Israel and joined the boycott.
@joethelion6016
2 ай бұрын
He didn't care much for Mrs T 😆😆
@NickGodwin
12 жыл бұрын
@italiamia1000 Every capitalist country has a fair whack of state intervention (e.g. keep the population educated & fit for work) & market control (complete free market results in monopolies). The communist state may have been terrible under Stalin, but the collective decision to move to communism was after the experience Russian had under the Tsar. Same in France (e.g."Let them eat cake"). Last sentence is laughable (read Whoops by John Lanchester). You've been educated to love money, not life.
@ZuluEchoRomeoOscar
12 жыл бұрын
Likewise the assassination.
@xjlmt
11 жыл бұрын
There's room in the cat's litter box. Sort of...
@franzfaramir
11 жыл бұрын
Good fucking riddance.
@Rob1964b
11 жыл бұрын
I like Elvis but sometimes I wonder what all those protest singers in the 80's would've done for a living without Thatcher.
@beetol86
11 жыл бұрын
the great myth of liberal democracy perfectly summed up
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