Music

June, 1986

Nelson GeorgePop Music embraces both the genre artist and the eclectic one. Genre artists do what they do best and attempt to, in James Brown's words, "do it all. Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus, once known legally as Elvis Costello, is an eclecticist whose songwriting stock in trade is placing his overly wordy lyrics in a variety of musical settings. From country to Motown, MacManus has produced results from brilliant to horrific. In King of America (Columbia), MacManus and producer T-Bon...

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