Elvis Costello & Blondie play Forest Hills this July
BY TAMMY SCILEPPI
“My ultimate vocation in
life is to be an irritant.” – Elvis
Costello
The bespectacled, Grammy
award-winning British rock
singer/songwriter, who has
done lots of different things
music-wise, was known for his
funky rock ‘n roll songs early
on as well as a slew of diverse
melodic pop tunes that filled
the air waves.
Genre-spanning visionary,
amazing songstress, style icon
and the ever-popular new wave
group Blondie’s luminous
front woman, Debbie Harry,
once said: “Music has its own
emotional embodiment. It
carries an emotion with it…”
These two iconic musicians
have been shaking up the
contemporary music scene for
years and audiences still can’t
get enough.
This summer, Elvis
Costello & The Imposters
and Blondie will be rocking
Forest Hills Stadium with
their exciting co-headlining
performance on July 24. So,
mark those calendars and get
your tickets.
The memorable event will
mark the first time Blondie has
graced the Forest Hills stage
and a return for Costello, who
last performed at the venue
on his Imperial Bedroom tour
nearly 35 years ago to the day.
American rock band
Blondie hit the road with their
uber-collaborative “ode to
bees” album, Pollinator (BMG)
in 2017, and fans went wild.
Their influence both
shaped and continues to
inform, music, fashion, art
and pop culture.
Costello and Blondie
shared the limelight near the
top of the UK Singles Chart
40 years ago when Blondie’s
unforgettable “Heart of
Glass” went neck and neck
alongside Elvis Costello &
The Attraction’s “Oliver’s
Army” in the company of
The Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor
and ABBA. Blondie’s seminal
album “Parallel Lines”
reached #1 on the Album
Chart the same week, while
Costello’s “Armed Forces”
landed at #3.
Costello’s eclectic
recording career began in
1977 with the release of “My
Blondie will play Forest Hills this summer
Photo: Alexander Thompson
Aim Is True.” And fans will
surely remember This Year’s
Model and Get Happy, King of
America, Blood & Chocolate,
The Juliet Letters with the
Brodsky Quartet, The River in
Reverse with Allen Toussaint
and Wise Up Ghost with The
Roots. Produced by Geoff
Emerick, who engineered
all of the Beatles’ most
ambitious records, Imperial
Bedroom has been described
as traditional pop with a post-
Sgt. Pepper production.
Costello & The Imposters’
well known “Look Now”
was released by Concord
Records in 2018. The
catalogue will soon include
the E.P., “Purse,” containing
songwriting collaborations
with Burt Bacharach and
Paul McCartney and musical
settings of lyrics by Johnny
Cash and Bob Dylan.
Since the release of their
self-titled debut album in
1976, Blondie has managed
to bring rock, punk, disco
and ska together racking
up four Billboard Hot 100 #1
hits: “Heart of Glass,” “Call
Me,” “The Tide Is High,”
and “Rapture.”
It was their boundarypushing
pop that made Blondie
widely recognized as one of
the most influential bands of
our time. Debbie Harry will
reflect on this and more in her
highly anticipated memoir out
later this year.
Described as international
ambassadors of New York
cool, Blondie’s chart-topping
success, fearless spirit and
rare longevity led to an
induction into the Rock ‘N’
Roll Hall of Fame in 2006,
various awards, and more
than 50 million albums sold
worldwide to date.
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to buy tickets, visit
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Tickets to all events will be
available without service fees
at the new Stadium box office,
located just outside on Burns
St., every Friday from 12 pm –
8 pm. Fans can also purchase
tickets at Williamsburg’s
Rough Trade (located off of
Bedford Ave stop on the L
train) during their box office
hours, Fridays & Saturdays 12
to 6 p.m..
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