As I started reading the Mojo article on Elvis Costello last night (helping to promote a new memoir he's written), I saw that he talked more about "Man Of The World" and its impact on him. The interviewer asked about a small Spanish guitar that Elvis had been given as a kid and that sat around in his room for four years before he played it:
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Not until I was 13, when "Man Of The World" came out. That song was the one. I had to learn how to play it. I don't know why - up until then I'd been content to just listen. And it was a really complicated song, not a beginner's song. It's in a difficult key (F) and lots of minor chords. But I was so smitten with it that I just worked and worked and worked at it. I learned that some of the other songs I liked were easy by comparison to that one and I was flying.
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The interviewer told him "That song used to make me cry", and Elvis responded:
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Yeah. Still does with me. And unashamedly it also appeals to a boy of that age, a lovelorn boy.
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