Elvis Costello wrote the closing song for the new movie “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,” but it’s a classic from his own canon that director Paul McGuigan planted as an Easter egg for music buffs. Costello’s “Pump It Up” is heard early on in the film to establish the late ’70s time frame, right before a scene that has the American actress Gloria Grahame (played by Annette Bening) meeting her younger Liverpudlian boyfriend (Jamie Bell) for the first time. Just after “Pump It Up” is heard on the soundtrack, the two lovers-to-be dance to “Boogie Oogie Oogie” — a cheeky nod to one of the silliest awards upsets of all time, when the ephemeral disco group A Taste of Honey famously beat Costello for the best new artist Grammy.
“You know what? It didn’t register,” admits Costello, who didn’t get the embedded joke when he first saw the film, and whom the...
“You know what? It didn’t register,” admits Costello, who didn’t get the embedded joke when he first saw the film, and whom the...
- 12/12/2017
- by Chris Willman
- Variety - Film News
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