Elvis Costello and Rod Stewart have traded barbs on social media following Costello’s criticism of final week’s Occasion on the Palace live performance celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee.
Stewart was one of many many artists who carried out on the June 4 occasion at Buckingham Palace, delivering a short portion of his 1983 hit “Child Jane” earlier than rolling into a canopy of “Candy Caroline.” Days later, throughout a tour cease in Glasgow, Costello paused mid-show to touch upon the star-studded live performance.
“The present was good, wasn’t it? Wasn’t it? No, it was shite,” the rocker stated, earlier than turning his consideration to Stewart. “I imply, I do know you all love him and he’s one in every of yours and every thing, however Rod. What the fuck? I have to say, hear, all of us have dangerous nights vocally, however for fuck’s sake, Candy fucking Caroline? Are you fucking kidding me? I imply I’ve been in present enterprise 45 years so I do know a factor or two. How is it that no one recommended Rod sing ‘You Put on It Nicely?’”
In posts to social media afterwards, Costello famous that his criticism was in regards to the track alternative and never the efficiency itself. “In case you learn my precise comment, it [was] in regards to the wrong-headed concept of asking Sir Rod [to] move up ‘You Put on It Nicely’ to steer a fucking singalong,” he explained.
Stewart chimed in by way of a tweet directed at Costello, explaining that his “voice was tough cos of Covid. I apologize, I although it higher it to make an look fairly than let everybody down so sorry.” He then took a dig at Costello, saying: “By the way in which the place’s your hair gone mate?”
In response, Costello advised Stewart “ I like you,” and once more clarified that he took situation with the track alternative and never the efficiency itself. “As to gigs, I had a stinker the opposite evening in Liverpool. They arrive and go, like hair, which I preserve sewn in my hat.”
As to the explanation why Stewart sang Neil Diamond’s “Candy Caroline” on the jubilee occasion and never one in every of his personal hits, the rocker’s spouse, Penny Lancaster, supplied this rationalization: “The BBC stated Rod we want you to sing ‘Candy Caroline’, it is the Queen’s favourite you need to do it so he did not have a lot of a alternative.”
Elvis Costello Albums Ranked
Even with a profession spanning greater than 4 many years, many collaborators and several other report labels, his discography has had far more hits than misses.
