{"id":7080,"date":"1980-02-06T11:00:27","date_gmt":"1980-02-06T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2026-09-20T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:04:04","slug":"cover-me-elvis-costello-point-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1980\/02\/06\/cover-me-elvis-costello-point-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis Costello: Point Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 25, 2009, Elvis Costello invited Bruce to join him for an episode of his\u00a0Spectacle\u00a0<\/em> television series. Bruce accepted, and the result was a session so chock full of great stories and performances that it spanned not one but two complete episodes.<\/p>\n

Those episodes are essential viewing for either Elvis or Bruce fans, but one of the evening’s strongest performances was never aired or released: While the camera operators were setting up for the evening, Elvis led his band through a fantastic and furious performance of “Point Blank.”<\/p>\n

Elvis’ cover (Bruce had yet to take the stage) was just as intense and impassioned as Bruce’s own best performances of the song. Take a listen below and hear for yourself.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 February 16, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the best performances from Elvis Costello’s Springsteen episode of Spectacle was never aired–but you can listen to that intense performance of “Point Blank” inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3623],"tags":[796,537,2151],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-me","category-river","tag-elvis-costello","tag-point-blank","tag-spectacle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t