Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Green Shirt was simply a compilation of clips from other promos. Watching The Detectives was a compilation of clips from a silent movie. "Young Sherlocks" from 1922 perhaps?

God Give Me Strength

Fron Stiff through Radar to F-Beat the catalogue numbers were fairly easy to remember for singles and albums. Having so many copies of XX32 made it stand out in particular in my memory. No rigging!

I quickly worked out the relative dates of GBH and Jake's Progress and plumped for the former based on where I was at the time etc. Thanks for the transcription mate.

I can't remember what I heard on Question 2. Please go ahead and post the Qs and As as I'm having difficulty finding my Q cards. I've changed bedrooms since the show and everything is in the wrong place! Eddie

More correctly: Prelude / You Left Me In The Dark

Not likely to have come up as the researchers aren't allowed to be that obscure. Big Sister boots spring to mind...

DON'T READ ON UNLESS YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! I have had to wait three months since I recorded this and not mention the outcome! OK, coming fourth on a Mastermind heat is not as good as coming third, second or even first, but as only 1 in 100 applicants gets on I've achieved something. When I...

I'm afraid I haven't spilled the beans to anyone yet (not even my mother) so please wait until the after screening!

I can actually post all the questions - even the ones that there wasn't time for as the producers gave me the set. Eddie.

One of the contenders in the 2004 series of Mastermind has a specialist round on "The Music of Elvis Costello. Those who can should tune in on Monday 28th June at 9pm on BBC2. How do I know this? Well the contender is me! See how I fared in the famous black chair...