5 May 2023
45 years ago (17 March 1978) ELVIS COSTELLO and his Attractions
released their second LP, the fantastic This Year’s Model. One of the
singles was the equally fantastic I DON’T WANT TO GO TO CHELSEA.
A song Costello wrote when he was working as a computer programmer.
Lyrically, it was inspired by the films he had been watching as well as his
childhood trips to Chelsea, London.
Oh, no, it does not move me
Even though I’ve seen the movie
I don’t want to check your pulse
I don’t want nobody else
I don’t want to go to Chelsea
