Artists About Artists

LANA REY About ELVIS

Posted on by JL

28 October 2026

When I was studying philosophy my teacher told me that it’s OK to feel like the people you are closest to aren’t alive anymore. Sometimes that is the best company to keep. I knew then, really, that my closest friends would be people I have never really met before. I was different and I didn’t know many people who felt about mortality how I did. As a result, I do feel a personal connection with icons like Elvis. He’s a major artistic inspiration.

Her 2008 Elvis song (demo).

ELVIS COSTELLO About OASIS

Posted on by JL

23 October 2026

“This is probably an heretical thing to say to Manucicans,
but I think that Oasis are a simplification of The La’s. There
was a purity to singer Lee Mavers’ songs and the whole attitude
of that. Oasis is more ruthless, and undoubtedly effective, so
I’m not gonna knock it.“

Eh, Elvis, the La’s released only 1 album, their eponymous one in 1990, with
5 great songs on it, including the timeless masterstroke, There She Goes. Not
much material to compare with Oasis‘ series of pure, massive anthems, right
Elvis?

Singer-songwriter Lee Mavers, unfortunately, left the music scene after that
one LP, but it gave him a lost star status that doesn’t match what he did IMO.
But, well, we will never know if he had more to offer than what he did.

Full Costello interview HERE

Legend STEVIE NICKS About Legend KATE BUSH

Posted on by JL

3 October 2026

“I loved her because she was a woman songwriter, and she was really standing of the fray, a real serious writer who you could compare with any of the guys. ‘Running Up That Hill’ was one of those songs that, when I first heard it, I went ‘Oh I wanna record that song someday. But you finally smarten up and go ‘I can’t do that song better than her so I’m not gonna do it.”

Kate does it best.