When Lorne Michaels was feted in his attempt to get media train-wreck The Sex Pistols onto his program due to visa problems, he booked the great Declan MacManus - better known as Elvis Costello - at the last moment.
Elvis Costello and the Attractions biting the hand that feeds them.
In one of those classic, live TV moments, Costello decides to abruptly stop playing his UK hit Less Than Zero and burst into an impromptu version of Radio Radio, an ultimate F.U. to corporate radio. He felt that the former song - about British fascist Oswald Moseley - wasn’t relevant to an American audience, so instead they played a song that was sure to sound like a battle-cry to a culturally impoverished, media-monopolized population. He was rewarded with a personal ban by Michaels from appearing on SNL for decades.
For Aneurin.
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