Elvis Costello and his band the Imposters just released their new album called The Boy Named If. And last night, Costello went on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to promote it, where he sat down for a three-part interview and played lead single “Magnificent Hurt” and a medley of “Farewell, OK” and &...

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In a new interview with The Telegraph, Elvis Costello said that he will no longer perform one of his most popular songs, “Oliver’s Army,” and asked that radio stations no longer play it. On the hit 1979 track, which is about the conflict in Northern Ireland, Costello sings the line: “Only takes one itchy t...

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