That is awesome! It's like stories about Lenny Bruce, or City Lights Bookstore in SF. Or, hell, Biafra and Alternative Tentacles records themselves.You'll enjoy this Mr Gandalfe, the line about East Berlin is probably pretty accurate at the time, Queensland at the time was basically a far right duchy to the North of Australia.
Is the F-word offensive in Queensland? The tiny record shop that faced down a culture war in court – and won
Brisbane’s Rocking Horse Records turns 50 this year – but it should also be celebrated for its role in facing down a ‘nonsense’ culture war that began with undercover cops and the Dead Kennedyswww.theguardian.com
I never really got into Elvis Costello, I don't mind his stuff but I never really find myself in the mood to say, "You know what I really want to listen to some of that Elvis Costello."
Not the best recording of this song, but the only one with a censored title.
View: https://youtu.be/TruUC-kvu5E?si=mAC_rydPMJuVDDui
(I love Nouvelle Vague. Having hot French women sing punk songs just hits a spot in me, apparently. I saw them in Portland a couple of years ago, and we stopped by a local pub for dinner beforehand. As our food arrived, they walked in - I thought it was them, but then I heard them speaking French - and sat in the booth behind us. I heard them order a bottle of wine. I told the waiter to put the wine on my tab, then walked to their table, told them we were big fans, and said we'd see them at the show. I didn't tell them about paying for their wine, but they probably found out when they went to pay?
Elvis Costello was probably the first artist who made me realize that music could MATTER, especially the lyrics. I know, I know, I should have learned that before I was 14, but, whatever.
