Elvis Costello has recalled the time he and his band were banned from Saturday Night Live in the late ’70s.On December 17,1977, Costello and his band The Attractions were booked to appear on the late night sketch show.
They performed ‘Watching The Detectives’ and a few bars of ‘Less Than Zero’, a song his record label wanted him to perform, before making a swift decision to switch up the setlist.“I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but there’s no reason to do this song here,” Costello told the audience before opting instead to play ‘Radio, Radio’, a song which criticised the commercialisation of broadcasting.It was because of this switch up and failing to communicate the change to longtime Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels that led.
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