Elvis Costello talked Bob Dylan and performing songs on the NIC film screening screen

Elvis Costello (R) in conversation with the director Bob Dylan Center Steven Jenkins in Paris Theater in New York, 6. September 2025.

Credit: David Chiu

Elvis Costello recently recalled his earliest experience with the music of Bob Dylan as a child growing up in Britain in the 1960s.

“I didn’t have pocket money at the age of 11 to buy all those records,” he said full of audiences in New York City Parish Theater on Saturday afternoon. “And when I checked the placing chart about these records (like” time “that are those that are changing” and like a fleet “)

All these records except “Maggie’s Farm” were the best 10 individual hits for Bob Dylan. So, we heard Bob Dylan, not like an artist of albums, but as an artist in the Hitloges of comparison with Freddie and dreamers and dreamers and that Jones and, about them, the Beatles and the first records from Motovn. And so I first heard him. ”

These are some of his dilational memories that a recognized British singer-songverter partition after a One-hour presentation in the NEV York City Theater Short movies and videos from the Archives of Bob Dylan, which is hosted by Steven Jenkins, director CENTER BOB DILAN Headquarters in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Among the recordings containing Dylan during decades from that presentation was a clip Autopsy of the abolition of work1961 film. year, which marked its first plan in sound work; A 1963. Solo performance “Ballads Hollis Brown” on TV show Folk songs and more folk songs; Glittering to take “Maggie’s Farm” at the 1965 Folk Festival. Year with guitar mike Bloomfied; Duet with Joan Baez on “I’m sorry to the poor immigrant” from 1976. Years Heavy rain Television Especially; Lecture “When the night comes from heaven” with that Petti and the heart election of the 1980s; and honor Johnny Cash and Tony Bennett with “Loving Love” and “once a long time”, respectively.

Costello has a connection to Bob Dylan, which has a courier Jukebox plailist Dylan songs and covers. Also participated in the recent Concert of all stars celebrates 50. Anniversary of classics Blood on tracks The album was held in Tulsa.

“When I was there,” he said in the center, “he was equally fascinating to this mysterious artist, and he was that guy who had a harmonica … may not be much more than his name. When you have been told to deal with any level curiosity and that is satisfactory. “

Costello also remembered when he first met Dylan in the background in 1978. year after the universal amphitheater that Costello was attended, taking office originally reserved for Barbra Streisand, who could not attend.

“It was a wonderful show,” he said. “The man lurked beside me, and he said,” When G. Dylan sings “Blin” in the wind, “it’s your signal.” I said, “My signal for what?” He said, “Then you came with me.” I said, “Where are we going?” ‘Backstage.’ And that was what it turned out to be greeted in Uvuku Boarstage by Bob Agent and the manager on the road, Jerry Veninraub and called me into a green room.

“Something later, Bob came in and looked me up and down, and he said,” Well, I heard a lot about you. “And the words that kicked out of my mouth forever will chase me – I think you can guess what I said,” I’ve heard a lot, I’m very easier to see that found it funny. “

In 2007, Costello visited Dylan, for a moment he described as amazing. “I Had Nothing Else To Do In Many Of These Towns, Most Of Which Seed To Be Called Bloomington. And Would Have Nothing Else To Do With Myself Until It Was Time To Get To The Next Town. So I Saw His Set Nearly Every Night. And It Was Marvelous BeCause You Got To See The Way HE Negotiated with His Own History, With His Own Focus on Particular Lyrics Over Others. “

Once the evening from that tour, the two performed together “tears of rage”, a song written by Dylan and Band’s Richard Manuel, chose Costello. “I started singing the first line, and I couldn’t sing. And I could see it and I could see it and I could see it in someone’s eyes and to see it and see him in one’s eyes and to see it by one’s eyes and I could see it was looking at someone’s eyes and to see it in one’s eyes.

“This was great behind the curtain of the curtain I had … I was going to sing him because I first heard him, and that I was admiring that, and most importantly, a man who realized myself.

After talking, to the pleasure of the audience, Exestollo performed Three Dolf’s songs only on guitar: “Ring the bell,” “Tomorrow is a long time” and “I threw it all.”

His Sabbath in the Paris Theater from Saturday covered with travel proof of the Bob Dylan Center, which is currently at Gallatina University Gallery in New York. Titled How many roads: Bob Dylan and its time changes, 1961-1964, The exhibition focuses on Dylan’s early years in his career when he first arrived in the village in New York Greenwich and took the folk storm scene. The exhibition contains artifacts from the period, including leaflets; newspapers for newspaper; Notes of songs such as “smoking in the wind” and “times of A-Changin” “were published in a wide side magazine; and the cover of the proposed live record, Bob Dylan at the concertIt has never been released.

The exhibition lasts 15. October.