10.29.2020
ELVIS COSTELLO READS LYRICS TO A SONG FOR TRUMP ON ‘COLBERT’
Rolling Stone: Claire Shaffer: October 29th 2020.
Costello also performs Hey Clockface and Armed Forces tunes with Late Show musical director Jon Batiste
Elvis Costello’s plans for much of 2020 were halted due to the pandemic; along with his current tour going on pause in March, his musical adaptation of A Face in the Crowd that was set to open in New York this year was also postponed. But on Thursday night’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the host gave Costello the chance to read from one of the musical’s most searing tunes, a thinly veiled takedown of our current commander-in-chief.