Margaret Cho on Elvis Costello

Margaret Cho remembers how Elvis Costello could do subversion:

Elvis has always been political. Once on Saturday Night Live, as a last minute replacement for The Sex Pistols, he awkwardly but gracefully - the Elvis way of doing things - stopped the performance of a second song, “Less Than Zero,” to play the song they told him not to play, “Radio, Radio.”

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