0:00:11 > 0:00:16Thank you very much. Tonight's artist has written and produced
0:00:16 > 0:00:20for many of the greatest names in popular music.
0:00:20 > 0:00:25He has sung with the Count Basie Orchestra and written with Paul McCartney.
0:00:25 > 0:00:31Tonight we celebrate his own music. He's been recording for 20 years.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35He has with him The Attractions plus many musical surprises.
0:00:35 > 0:00:40Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr Elvis Costello.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43CHEERING AND WHISTLING
0:01:01 > 0:01:06# Oh, I just don't know where to begin
0:01:06 > 0:01:09# Though he says he'll wait forever
0:01:09 > 0:01:10# It's now or never
0:01:10 > 0:01:13# But they keep him hanging on
0:01:13 > 0:01:16# This silly champion
0:01:16 > 0:01:20# She says she can't go home without a chaperone
0:01:20 > 0:01:21# Accidents will happen
0:01:22 > 0:01:23# Only hit and run
0:01:24 > 0:01:28# He used to be your victim, now you're not the only one
0:01:28 > 0:01:30# Accidents will happen
0:01:30 > 0:01:32# We only hit and run
0:01:32 > 0:01:34# I don't want to hear it
0:01:34 > 0:01:37# Cos I know what I've done
0:01:41 > 0:01:45# Well, there's so many fish in the sea
0:01:45 > 0:01:49# That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury
0:01:49 > 0:01:52# But they keep you hanging on
0:01:52 > 0:01:55# They say you're so young
0:01:55 > 0:01:59# Your mouth is made up but your mind is undone
0:01:59 > 0:02:01# Accidents will happen
0:02:01 > 0:02:03# We're only hit and run
0:02:03 > 0:02:07# He used to be your victim, now you're not the only one
0:02:07 > 0:02:09# Accidents will happen
0:02:09 > 0:02:11# We're only hit and run
0:02:11 > 0:02:13# I don't want to hear it
0:02:13 > 0:02:15# Cos I know what I've...
0:02:15 > 0:02:17# Done
0:02:24 > 0:02:27# And it's the damage that we do
0:02:27 > 0:02:29# And never know
0:02:29 > 0:02:31# It's the words that we don't say
0:02:31 > 0:02:33# That scare me so
0:02:33 > 0:02:37# There's so many people to see
0:02:37 > 0:02:39# So many people you can check up on
0:02:39 > 0:02:41# And add to your collection
0:02:41 > 0:02:44# But they keep you hanging on
0:02:44 > 0:02:47# Until you're well hung
0:02:47 > 0:02:49# Your mind is made up
0:02:49 > 0:02:50# Your mouth is undone
0:02:51 > 0:02:53# Accidents will happen
0:02:53 > 0:02:55# We're only hit and run
0:02:55 > 0:02:59# He used to be your victim, now you're not the only one
0:02:59 > 0:03:01# Accidents will happen
0:03:01 > 0:03:03# We're only hit and run
0:03:03 > 0:03:05# I don't want to hear it
0:03:05 > 0:03:07# Cos I know what I've...
0:03:07 > 0:03:09# I know what I've...
0:03:09 > 0:03:11# I know what I've...
0:03:11 > 0:03:14# Done
0:03:15 > 0:03:17# I know
0:03:17 > 0:03:19# I know
0:03:19 > 0:03:21# I know
0:03:23 > 0:03:25# I know
0:03:25 > 0:03:27# I know
0:03:27 > 0:03:29# I know
0:03:31 > 0:03:33# I know
0:03:33 > 0:03:35# I know
0:03:35 > 0:03:37# I know
0:03:39 > 0:03:41# I know
0:03:41 > 0:03:43# I know
0:03:43 > 0:03:45# I know
0:03:47 > 0:03:51# Do do do, do d'n do do do do
0:03:55 > 0:03:59# Do do do, do d'n do do do do do. #
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Thank you.
0:04:53 > 0:04:59# I arose and Marigold lay down with curious Iris
0:04:59 > 0:05:01# Cherry gave to Victor
0:05:01 > 0:05:04# Her prudence and her virus
0:05:04 > 0:05:06# For the sake of purity
0:05:06 > 0:05:09# I can recall the time and place
0:05:09 > 0:05:12# Between wisdom and murder
0:05:12 > 0:05:17# She gave up her immaculate face
0:05:18 > 0:05:21# My poor belated chastity
0:05:21 > 0:05:23# Fell foul of grown-up games
0:05:23 > 0:05:26# With false and lovely modesty
0:05:26 > 0:05:32# I can recall the names I'll miss
0:05:32 > 0:05:34# In the particle of me
0:05:34 > 0:05:37# That cares for this
0:05:37 > 0:05:40# I betrayed those little atoms
0:05:40 > 0:05:42# With a kiss
0:05:52 > 0:05:57# Patience has her virtue still but every grace must have its price
0:05:57 > 0:05:59# I, through some felicity,
0:05:59 > 0:06:03# May spin a tale of constant vice
0:06:03 > 0:06:05# My better nature
0:06:05 > 0:06:08# I drowned it in the babbling stream
0:06:08 > 0:06:10# I took the blossom of my youth
0:06:10 > 0:06:13# And I blew it all to smithereens
0:06:13 > 0:06:16# My poor belated chastity
0:06:16 > 0:06:18# Fell foul of grown-up games
0:06:19 > 0:06:21# With false and lovely modesty
0:06:21 > 0:06:26# I can recall the names I'll miss
0:06:27 > 0:06:29# In the particle of me
0:06:29 > 0:06:31# That cares for this
0:06:32 > 0:06:35# I betrayed those little atoms
0:06:35 > 0:06:37# With a kiss
0:06:47 > 0:06:49# And if you still don't like my song
0:06:49 > 0:06:52# Then you can just go to hell
0:06:52 > 0:06:55# I don't care if I'm right or wrong
0:06:55 > 0:06:58# Or if my typewriter can spell
0:06:58 > 0:07:00# But I cannot promise you
0:07:00 > 0:07:03# I've said goodbye to childish things
0:07:03 > 0:07:06# There are still some pretty insults in life
0:07:06 > 0:07:09# And such sport is threatening
0:07:09 > 0:07:13# My poor belated chastity fell foul of grown-up games
0:07:13 > 0:07:16# With false and lovely modesty
0:07:16 > 0:07:20# I can recall the names I'll miss
0:07:21 > 0:07:24# In the particle of me
0:07:24 > 0:07:26# That cares for this
0:07:27 > 0:07:30# I betrayed those little atoms
0:07:31 > 0:07:32# With a kiss
0:07:37 > 0:07:39# And for the sake of clarity
0:07:39 > 0:07:42# There are faith hope and charity
0:07:42 > 0:07:46# In the particle of me that cares for this
0:07:46 > 0:07:50# I betrayed those little atoms
0:07:50 > 0:07:53# With a kiss. #
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Thank you!
0:09:16 > 0:09:19That was a song from my new record,
0:09:19 > 0:09:22All This Useless Beauty, called Little Atoms.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26We're gonna do a mixture of all kinds of songs tonight.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30We'll do songs we just made up this afternoon,
0:09:30 > 0:09:36and some songs we've been doing for 20 years, as has been said before.
0:09:36 > 0:09:41We thought it'd be fun to play in a way we'd never played before.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44We've played this song for 20 years,
0:09:44 > 0:09:49and I wrote it on a fire escape in Newcastle, but don't be put off.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51You all ready? Yeah?
0:09:51 > 0:09:55- AUDIENCE:- Yeah! - Here we go!
0:10:01 > 0:10:02# I've been on tenterhooks
0:10:02 > 0:10:04# Ending in dirty looks
0:10:04 > 0:10:06# Listening to the muzak
0:10:06 > 0:10:07# Thinking 'bout this 'n' that
0:10:07 > 0:10:09# She said that's that
0:10:09 > 0:10:11# I don't want to chitter chat
0:10:11 > 0:10:13# Turn it down a little bit
0:10:13 > 0:10:14# Turn it down flat
0:10:14 > 0:10:16# Pump it up
0:10:16 > 0:10:18# Till you can feel it
0:10:18 > 0:10:19# Pump it up
0:10:19 > 0:10:21# When you don't really need it
0:10:28 > 0:10:30# Down in the pleasure centre
0:10:30 > 0:10:31# Hell bent or heaven sent
0:10:31 > 0:10:33# Listen to the propaganda
0:10:33 > 0:10:35# Listen to the latest slander
0:10:35 > 0:10:37# There's nothing underhand
0:10:37 > 0:10:38# But she wouldn't understand
0:10:38 > 0:10:40# Pump it up
0:10:40 > 0:10:42# Till you can feel it
0:10:42 > 0:10:43# Pump it up
0:10:43 > 0:10:45# When you don't really need it! #
0:10:45 > 0:10:47Yaow!
0:11:06 > 0:11:07Yeah!
0:11:13 > 0:11:15# She's been a bad girl
0:11:15 > 0:11:17# She's like a chemical
0:11:17 > 0:11:19# Though you try to stop it
0:11:19 > 0:11:21# She's like a narcotic
0:11:21 > 0:11:22# You want to talk to her
0:11:22 > 0:11:23# You want to talk to her
0:11:23 > 0:11:26# All the things you bought for her
0:11:26 > 0:11:27# Putting up your temperature
0:11:27 > 0:11:28# Pump it up
0:11:29 > 0:11:31# Till you can feel it
0:11:31 > 0:11:32# Pump it up
0:11:32 > 0:11:34# When you don't really need it! Yaow!
0:11:41 > 0:11:43# Out in the fashion show
0:11:43 > 0:11:45# Out in the bargain bin
0:11:45 > 0:11:47# You put your passion out
0:11:47 > 0:11:49# Under the pressure pin
0:11:49 > 0:11:50# Fall into submission
0:11:50 > 0:11:52# Hit and run transmission
0:11:52 > 0:11:54# No use wishing now
0:11:54 > 0:11:55# For any other sin
0:11:55 > 0:11:57# Pump it up
0:11:57 > 0:11:59# Till you can feel it
0:11:59 > 0:12:00# Pump it up
0:12:00 > 0:12:03# When you don't really need it
0:12:09 > 0:12:11# Pump it up
0:12:11 > 0:12:13# Till you can feel it
0:12:13 > 0:12:14# Pump it up
0:12:14 > 0:12:17# When you don't really need it
0:12:23 > 0:12:25# Pump it up
0:12:25 > 0:12:27# Till you can feel it
0:12:27 > 0:12:28# Pump it up
0:12:28 > 0:12:31# When you don't really need it
0:12:32 > 0:12:34# Don't really need it
0:12:36 > 0:12:38# Don't really need it
0:12:39 > 0:12:41# Don't really need it! #
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Yaow!
0:13:18 > 0:13:23That's the first time anyone's heard the words of that song in 15 years.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25What words they are, too, you know!
0:13:27 > 0:13:29Er...
0:13:29 > 0:13:33This is also new - called Why Can't A Man Stand Alone?
0:13:33 > 0:13:37It's about some of the things guys are taught they need in life -
0:13:37 > 0:13:40they're a big burden to them, really.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43So they have the world weighing them down...
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Then they turn all mean and nasty,
0:13:50 > 0:13:54something I wouldn't know anything about(!)
0:14:00 > 0:14:04# Why can't a man
0:14:05 > 0:14:09# Stand alone?
0:14:10 > 0:14:13# Must he be burdened
0:14:13 > 0:14:16# By all he is taught
0:14:16 > 0:14:21# To consider his own?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26# His skin and his station
0:14:29 > 0:14:33# His kin and his crown
0:14:34 > 0:14:38# His flag and his nation
0:14:38 > 0:14:40# They just weigh him down
0:14:40 > 0:14:42# You know pride
0:14:44 > 0:14:46# Is a sin
0:14:47 > 0:14:50# That we tend to forgive
0:14:50 > 0:14:54# But it gets hard to live
0:14:54 > 0:14:57# When you don't have the love
0:14:57 > 0:15:01# In your heart to begin with
0:15:03 > 0:15:07# Why can't a man
0:15:08 > 0:15:12# Stand alone?
0:15:19 > 0:15:23# Why can't a woman
0:15:24 > 0:15:29# Be just what she seems?
0:15:30 > 0:15:34# Must she be tarnished by men
0:15:34 > 0:15:41# Who can only be men in their dreams?
0:15:43 > 0:15:46# When beauty meets ignorance
0:15:49 > 0:15:53# They shout in the street
0:15:54 > 0:15:58# Repeating their offer
0:15:58 > 0:16:00# To each girl they meet
0:16:01 > 0:16:03# The respect
0:16:04 > 0:16:07# That she needs
0:16:08 > 0:16:11# It isn't a gift
0:16:11 > 0:16:16# But it gets hard to lift yourself up
0:16:16 > 0:16:21# When you don't have the strength to begin with
0:16:23 > 0:16:27# Why can't a woman
0:16:28 > 0:16:32# Stand alone?
0:16:33 > 0:16:40# Why can't a baby sleep at night
0:16:40 > 0:16:45# And dream of the time to come
0:16:45 > 0:16:51# And never fear the world outside
0:16:51 > 0:16:59# The touch of someone very near?
0:17:00 > 0:17:04# Why can't a man
0:17:04 > 0:17:06# Stand up?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09# Why can't a man
0:17:11 > 0:17:12# Stand up?
0:17:13 > 0:17:16# Why can't a man
0:17:16 > 0:17:23# Stand alone? #
0:17:37 > 0:17:39The Attractions!
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Steve Nieve on keyboards!
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Bruce Thomas!
0:17:45 > 0:17:49Pete Thomas on drums!
0:18:06 > 0:18:09# Is it all in that pretty, little head of yours?
0:18:09 > 0:18:13# What goes on in that place in the dark?
0:18:13 > 0:18:16# Well, I used to know a girl and I could have sworn
0:18:16 > 0:18:19# That her name was Veronica
0:18:20 > 0:18:23# Well she used to have a carefree mind of her own
0:18:23 > 0:18:26# And a devilish look in her eye
0:18:27 > 0:18:30# These days I'm afraid she's not even sure
0:18:30 > 0:18:33# If her name is Veronica
0:18:34 > 0:18:39# Do you suppose that waiting hands on eyes
0:18:39 > 0:18:43# Veronica has gone to hide?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46# And all the time she laughs at those
0:18:46 > 0:18:49# Who shout her name and steal her clothes
0:18:49 > 0:18:51# Veronica
0:18:53 > 0:18:55# Veronica
0:19:03 > 0:19:07# Did the days drag by? Did the favours wane?
0:19:07 > 0:19:10# Did he roam down the town all the while?
0:19:10 > 0:19:14# Will you wake from your dream with a wolf at the door
0:19:14 > 0:19:16# Reaching out for Veronica?
0:19:17 > 0:19:21# Well, it was all of sixty-five years ago
0:19:21 > 0:19:24# When the world was the street where she lived
0:19:24 > 0:19:28# And a young man sailed on a ship in the sea
0:19:28 > 0:19:30# With a picture of Veronica
0:19:31 > 0:19:37# On the Empress Of India
0:19:38 > 0:19:44# And as she closed her eyes upon the world
0:19:46 > 0:19:52# And picked upon the bones of last week's news
0:19:53 > 0:19:56# She spoke his name out loud again
0:19:57 > 0:20:02# Do you suppose that waiting hands on eyes
0:20:02 > 0:20:05# Veronica has gone to hide?
0:20:05 > 0:20:09# And all the time she laughs at those
0:20:09 > 0:20:12# Who shout her name and steal her clothes
0:20:12 > 0:20:14# Veronica
0:20:16 > 0:20:18# Veronica
0:20:26 > 0:20:29# Veronica sits in her favourite chair
0:20:29 > 0:20:33# She sits very quiet and still
0:20:33 > 0:20:37# And they call her a name that they never get right
0:20:37 > 0:20:40# And if they don't then nobody else will
0:20:40 > 0:20:44# She used to have a carefree mind of her own
0:20:44 > 0:20:47# With a devilish look in her eye
0:20:47 > 0:20:51# Saying, "You can call me anything you like
0:20:51 > 0:20:54# "But my name is Veronica"
0:20:54 > 0:20:57# My name is Veronica
0:20:57 > 0:21:01# My name is Veronica
0:21:01 > 0:21:05# Do you suppose that waiting hands on eyes
0:21:05 > 0:21:09# Veronica has gone to hide?
0:21:09 > 0:21:12# And all the time she laughs at those
0:21:12 > 0:21:16# Who shout her name and steal her clothes
0:21:16 > 0:21:18# Veronica
0:21:19 > 0:21:21# Veronica
0:21:23 > 0:21:26# Oh-oh-oh
0:21:26 > 0:21:31# Veronica! #
0:21:56 > 0:22:02For those who haven't met them, let me introduce The Brodsky Quartet.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15We're going to do a tricky little number now.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19Paul has arranged it. Some of you may recognise it.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50# They talked to the sister, the father and the mother
0:22:50 > 0:22:55# With a microphone in one hand and a cheque book in the other
0:22:55 > 0:22:59# And the camera noses in to the tears on her face
0:22:59 > 0:23:02# The tears on her face
0:23:02 > 0:23:04# The tears on her face
0:23:04 > 0:23:08# You can put them back together with your paper and paste
0:23:08 > 0:23:11# But you can't put them back together
0:23:11 > 0:23:13# You can't put them back together
0:23:14 > 0:23:17# What would you say, what would you do?
0:23:18 > 0:23:22# Children and animals two by two
0:23:23 > 0:23:27# Give me the needle, give me the rope
0:23:27 > 0:23:32# We're gonna melt them down for pills and soap
0:23:37 > 0:23:41# Four and twenty crowbars jemmy your desire
0:23:42 > 0:23:44# Out of the frying pan
0:23:44 > 0:23:46# Into the fire
0:23:46 > 0:23:50# The king is in the counting house, some folk have all the luck
0:23:50 > 0:23:55# And all we get are pictures of lord and lady muck
0:23:55 > 0:23:58# They come from lovely people
0:23:58 > 0:24:00# With a hard line in hypocrisy
0:24:00 > 0:24:03# There are ashtrays of emotion
0:24:03 > 0:24:06# For the fag ends of the aristocracy
0:24:06 > 0:24:09# What would you say, what would you do?
0:24:10 > 0:24:14# Children and animals two by two
0:24:14 > 0:24:19# Give me the needle, give me the rope
0:24:19 > 0:24:24# We're gonna melt them down for pills and soap
0:24:26 > 0:24:31# Give me the needle
0:24:32 > 0:24:37# Give me the rope
0:25:02 > 0:25:06# The sugar coated pill is getting bitterer still
0:25:06 > 0:25:11# You think your country needs you but you know it never will
0:25:11 > 0:25:15# So pack up your troubles in a stolen handbag
0:25:16 > 0:25:21# Don't dilly dally, boys, rally around the flag
0:25:21 > 0:25:25# Give us our daily bread in individual slices
0:25:25 > 0:25:31# And something in the daily rag to cancel any crisis
0:25:31 > 0:25:34# What would you say, what would you do?
0:25:35 > 0:25:39# Children and animals two by two
0:25:40 > 0:25:42# Give me the needle
0:25:42 > 0:25:45# Give me the rope
0:25:45 > 0:25:49# We're gonna melt them down for pills and soap
0:25:51 > 0:25:56# Give me the needle
0:25:57 > 0:26:01# Give me the rope
0:26:02 > 0:26:09# We're going
0:26:09 > 0:26:17# To melt them down for pills and soap
0:26:17 > 0:26:22# For pills
0:26:22 > 0:26:28# And soap. #
0:26:49 > 0:26:54This is the last song in The Juliet Letters.
0:26:54 > 0:27:00This is one written by somebody to their lover after they've passed on,
0:27:00 > 0:27:04to give them kind of hope to go on...with life.
0:27:18 > 0:27:24# Summertime withers as the sun
0:27:24 > 0:27:27# Descends
0:27:28 > 0:27:30# He wants to kiss you
0:27:30 > 0:27:35# Will you condescend?
0:27:36 > 0:27:40# Before you wake and find a chill
0:27:40 > 0:27:44# Within your bones
0:27:44 > 0:27:51# Under a fine canopy of lover's dust
0:27:51 > 0:27:54# And humorous bones
0:27:54 > 0:27:58# Banish all dismay
0:27:58 > 0:28:04# Extinguish every sorrow
0:28:10 > 0:28:14# Eternity stinks, my darling
0:28:14 > 0:28:17# That's no joke
0:28:18 > 0:28:21# Don't waste your precious time
0:28:21 > 0:28:26# Pretending you're heartbroken
0:28:27 > 0:28:31# There will be tears and candles
0:28:31 > 0:28:35# Pretty words to say
0:28:36 > 0:28:40# Spare me the lily-white lily
0:28:40 > 0:28:45# With the awful perfume of decay
0:28:45 > 0:28:50# Banish all dismay
0:28:50 > 0:28:55# Extinguish every sorrow
0:28:55 > 0:29:01# If I'm lost or I'm forgiven
0:29:01 > 0:29:07# The birds will still be singing
0:29:50 > 0:29:54# It's so hard to
0:29:54 > 0:29:59# Tear myself away
0:29:59 > 0:30:08# Even when you know it's over
0:30:08 > 0:30:13# It's too much to say
0:30:27 > 0:30:31# Banish all dismay
0:30:31 > 0:30:36# Extinguish every sorrow
0:30:36 > 0:30:42# If I'm lost or I'm forgiven
0:30:43 > 0:30:50# The birds will still be singing. #
0:31:45 > 0:31:47Thank you!
0:31:57 > 0:31:59Thank you very much.
0:31:59 > 0:32:06Last year, I arranged a music festival and got lots of people to come and play at it.
0:32:06 > 0:32:11We put together a big band, as you can see, with The Brodsky Quartet.
0:32:11 > 0:32:15We asked different people to write arrangements.
0:32:15 > 0:32:21I wrote a few and invited some other musicians to write arrangements of songs I'd written.
0:32:21 > 0:32:28This song we're going to do now was originally composed for the blues singer Charles Brown.
0:33:41 > 0:33:45# Upon a veil
0:33:45 > 0:33:50# Of midnight blue
0:33:51 > 0:33:55# They hung a crescent moon
0:33:55 > 0:33:59# To light the view
0:34:00 > 0:34:03# But you didn't whisper the words
0:34:03 > 0:34:09# When the moment arose
0:34:10 > 0:34:17# I wonder how she knows
0:34:19 > 0:34:23# Your words escape and hide
0:34:24 > 0:34:28# You find your tongue is tied
0:34:29 > 0:34:33# But she's so patient and kind
0:34:33 > 0:34:38# She's prepared to read your mind
0:34:39 > 0:34:43# That's all very well till you find
0:34:43 > 0:34:48# Because of the wine you drank
0:34:50 > 0:34:57# Your mind is just a blank
0:35:34 > 0:35:38# You find your tongue is tied
0:35:38 > 0:35:43# Your words escape and hide
0:35:44 > 0:35:48# But she's so patient and kind
0:35:48 > 0:35:53# She's prepared to read your mind
0:35:54 > 0:35:58# That's all very well till you find
0:35:58 > 0:36:03# Because of the wine you drank
0:36:05 > 0:36:11# Your mind is just a blank
0:36:14 > 0:36:18# I wonder how she knows
0:36:18 > 0:36:22# I guess she will wonder until
0:36:22 > 0:36:28# You pluck up the courage to tell her
0:36:28 > 0:36:32# How you feel
0:36:32 > 0:36:38# So close you can feel her heart trembling
0:36:38 > 0:36:43# You look in her eyes as they close
0:36:43 > 0:36:48# I wonder how
0:36:48 > 0:36:54# She knows
0:36:59 > 0:37:03# I wonder how
0:37:03 > 0:37:09# She knows. #
0:37:54 > 0:37:59This song is the title track of the new record, All This Useless Beauty.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02I wrote it in Italy.
0:38:02 > 0:38:10I saw a woman in a picture gallery looking at all these beautiful pictures of classical antiquity.
0:38:10 > 0:38:16Her eyes left the wall and came down to her late-20th-century lover.
0:38:16 > 0:38:21She had this look in her eyes, like "Where did we go wrong?"
0:38:21 > 0:38:25The song is about other things, but that's where it starts.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32# It's at times such as this
0:38:32 > 0:38:35# She would be tempted to spit
0:38:35 > 0:38:39# If she wasn't so ladylike
0:38:40 > 0:38:44# She imagines how she might have lived
0:38:44 > 0:38:48# Back when legends and history collide
0:38:51 > 0:38:53# So she looks to her prince
0:38:53 > 0:39:00# Finding since he's so charmingly slumped at her side
0:39:01 > 0:39:06# Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
0:39:07 > 0:39:13# And she's waiting for passion or humour to strike
0:39:15 > 0:39:18# What shall we do?
0:39:18 > 0:39:21# What shall we do
0:39:21 > 0:39:26# With all this useless beauty?
0:39:27 > 0:39:32# All this useless beauty
0:39:40 > 0:39:43# Good Friday arrived
0:39:43 > 0:39:46# The sky darkened on time
0:39:46 > 0:39:51# Till he almost began to negotiate
0:39:51 > 0:39:56# She held his head like a baby and said
0:39:56 > 0:40:01# "It's OK if you cry"
0:40:02 > 0:40:05# Now he wants her to dress
0:40:05 > 0:40:08# As if you couldn't guess
0:40:08 > 0:40:13# He desires to impress his associates
0:40:13 > 0:40:16# But he's part ugly beast
0:40:16 > 0:40:18# And Hellenic deceased
0:40:18 > 0:40:24# So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny
0:40:27 > 0:40:29# What shall we do?
0:40:29 > 0:40:32# What shall we do
0:40:32 > 0:40:38# With all this useless beauty?
0:40:39 > 0:40:44# All this useless beauty
0:40:52 > 0:40:55# She won't practise the looks
0:40:55 > 0:40:58# From the great tragic books
0:40:58 > 0:41:03# That were later disgraced to face celluloid
0:41:03 > 0:41:06# She won't even make sense
0:41:06 > 0:41:09# But you can bet
0:41:09 > 0:41:14# If she isn't a sweetheart, a plaything or pet
0:41:14 > 0:41:18# The film turns her into
0:41:18 > 0:41:21# An unveiled threat
0:41:23 > 0:41:26# Nonsense prevails
0:41:26 > 0:41:28# Modesty fails
0:41:28 > 0:41:33# Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
0:41:34 > 0:41:37# While the calendar fades
0:41:37 > 0:41:40# Almost all barricades
0:41:40 > 0:41:45# To a pale compromise
0:41:46 > 0:41:48# And our leaders have feasts
0:41:48 > 0:41:51# On the backsides of beasts
0:41:51 > 0:41:56# They still think they're the gods of antiquity
0:41:57 > 0:41:59# If something you missed
0:41:59 > 0:42:02# Didn't even exist
0:42:02 > 0:42:05# It was just an ideal
0:42:05 > 0:42:08# Is it such a surprise?
0:42:11 > 0:42:13# What shall we do?
0:42:13 > 0:42:16# What shall we do
0:42:16 > 0:42:21# With all this useless beauty?
0:42:21 > 0:42:28# All this useless beauty
0:42:31 > 0:42:34# What shall we do?
0:42:34 > 0:42:36# What shall we do
0:42:36 > 0:42:41# With all this useless beauty?
0:42:41 > 0:42:48# All this useless beauty. #
0:43:02 > 0:43:04The Brodsky Quartet!
0:43:04 > 0:43:09The ladies and gentlemen of the orchestra and The Attractions!
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Thank you!
0:43:32 > 0:43:37# Forever
0:43:41 > 0:43:47# Doesn't mean forever any more
0:43:49 > 0:43:56# I said forever
0:43:58 > 0:44:00# But it doesn't look like
0:44:00 > 0:44:03# I'm going to be around much any more
0:44:05 > 0:44:09# When the heat gets subtropical
0:44:09 > 0:44:13# And the talk gets so topical
0:44:13 > 0:44:15# Riot act
0:44:16 > 0:44:19# You can read me the riot act
0:44:19 > 0:44:23# You can make me a matter of fact
0:44:23 > 0:44:25# Or a villain in a million
0:44:25 > 0:44:30# A slip of the tongue is gonna keep me civilian
0:44:30 > 0:44:34# Why do you talk such stupid nonsense
0:44:34 > 0:44:40# When my mind could rest much easier
0:44:41 > 0:44:47# Instead of all this dumb, dumb insolence
0:44:47 > 0:44:51# I would be happier with amnesia
0:45:01 > 0:45:05# They say
0:45:05 > 0:45:08# Forget her
0:45:10 > 0:45:13# Now it looks like you're either gonna be
0:45:13 > 0:45:16# Before me or against me
0:45:17 > 0:45:21# I got
0:45:21 > 0:45:25# Your letter
0:45:26 > 0:45:28# Now they say I don't care
0:45:28 > 0:45:33# For the colour that it paints me
0:45:34 > 0:45:38# Trying to be so bad is bad enough
0:45:38 > 0:45:42# Don't make me laugh by talking tough
0:45:42 > 0:45:46# Don't put your heart out on your sleeve
0:45:46 > 0:45:49# When your remarks are off the cuff
0:45:49 > 0:45:51# Riot act
0:45:51 > 0:45:55# You can read me the riot act
0:45:55 > 0:45:59# You can make me a matter of fact
0:45:59 > 0:46:01# Or a villain in a million
0:46:01 > 0:46:05# A slip of the tongue is gonna keep me civilian
0:46:05 > 0:46:07# Riot act
0:46:08 > 0:46:11# You can read me the riot act
0:46:12 > 0:46:13# You can make me
0:46:21 > 0:46:23# Riot act
0:46:23 > 0:46:27# You can read me the riot act
0:46:27 > 0:46:31# You can read me the riot act
0:46:31 > 0:46:34# You can read me the riot act
0:46:34 > 0:46:38# You can read me the riot act
0:46:38 > 0:46:42# You can read me the riot act! #
0:46:42 > 0:46:45Yea-ea-eah!
0:47:22 > 0:47:26# Well, you know your time has come
0:47:26 > 0:47:30# And you're sorry for what you've done
0:47:30 > 0:47:33# You should've never been playing with a gun
0:47:33 > 0:47:36# In those complicated shadows
0:47:41 > 0:47:44# Well, there's a line that you must toe
0:47:44 > 0:47:48# And it'll soon be time to go
0:47:49 > 0:47:52# But it's darker than you know
0:47:52 > 0:47:54# In those complicated shadows
0:48:00 > 0:48:03# All you gangsters and rude clowns
0:48:03 > 0:48:07# Who were shooting up the town
0:48:07 > 0:48:10# When you should have found
0:48:10 > 0:48:14# Someone to put the blame on
0:48:18 > 0:48:22# Though the fury's hot and hard
0:48:22 > 0:48:26# I still see that cold graveyard
0:48:26 > 0:48:29# There's a solitary stone
0:48:29 > 0:48:32# That's got your name on
0:48:32 > 0:48:37# You don't have to take it from me
0:48:37 > 0:48:41# But I know of what I spake
0:48:41 > 0:48:44# You think you're like iron and steel
0:48:44 > 0:48:48# Iron and steel will bend and break
0:48:48 > 0:48:50# In those complicated shadows. #
0:48:56 > 0:48:57GOD!
0:49:10 > 0:49:14# Sometimes justice you will find
0:49:14 > 0:49:17# Is just dumb not colour-blind
0:49:17 > 0:49:21# And your poor shattered mind
0:49:21 > 0:49:24# Can't take it all in
0:49:29 > 0:49:32# All those phantoms and their shades
0:49:32 > 0:49:36# Should jump up on Judgement Day
0:49:36 > 0:49:39# And say to the Almighty
0:49:39 > 0:49:43# "I'm still stinking of sin"
0:49:43 > 0:49:47# But the jury was dismissed
0:49:47 > 0:49:51# They took his neck and gave it a twist
0:49:51 > 0:49:54# So you see you won't be missed
0:49:54 > 0:49:57# In those complicated shadows
0:50:02 > 0:50:05# You can say just what you like
0:50:06 > 0:50:09# In a voice like John Ford Finn
0:50:09 > 0:50:13# But take the law into your hands
0:50:13 > 0:50:16# You will soon get tired of killing
0:50:16 > 0:50:19# In those complicated shadows
0:50:20 > 0:50:23# Complicated shadows
0:50:24 > 0:50:26# Complicated shadows
0:50:28 > 0:50:30# Complicated shadows. #
0:50:32 > 0:50:33Aiii!
0:51:44 > 0:51:47# Nice girls not one with a defect
0:51:47 > 0:51:51# Cellophane shrink-wrapped so correct
0:51:51 > 0:51:55# Red dogs under illegal legs
0:51:58 > 0:52:04# She looks so good that he gets down and begs
0:52:04 > 0:52:07# She is watching the detectives
0:52:08 > 0:52:11# Ooh, he's so cute
0:52:11 > 0:52:15# She is watching the detectives
0:52:15 > 0:52:17# Oh, then they shoot
0:52:17 > 0:52:18# Shoot
0:52:18 > 0:52:19# Shoot
0:52:19 > 0:52:20# Shoot
0:52:20 > 0:52:23# They beat him up until the teardrops start
0:52:24 > 0:52:28# But he can't be wounded when he's got no heart
0:52:30 > 0:52:32# When he's got no heart
0:52:48 > 0:52:51# Long shot of that jumping sign
0:52:52 > 0:52:54# Visible shivers running down my spine
0:52:54 > 0:52:58# Cut to the baby taking off her clothes
0:52:58 > 0:53:02# Close-up of the sign that says We Never Close
0:53:02 > 0:53:06# You snatch a tune and match your cigarette
0:53:06 > 0:53:09# She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet
0:53:10 > 0:53:15# Don't know how much more of this I can take
0:53:17 > 0:53:22# She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake
0:53:23 > 0:53:26# She is watching the detectives
0:53:27 > 0:53:29# Ooh, he's so cute
0:53:30 > 0:53:33# She is watching the detectives
0:53:34 > 0:53:39# Ooh, and they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
0:53:39 > 0:53:42# They beat him up until the teardrops start
0:53:42 > 0:53:47# But he can't be wounded when he's got no heart
0:53:50 > 0:53:51# He's got no heart
0:54:07 > 0:54:10# You think you're alone until you realise you're in it
0:54:10 > 0:54:15# Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit
0:54:15 > 0:54:16# They call it instant justice
0:54:16 > 0:54:18# When it's past the legal limit
0:54:18 > 0:54:20# Someone's scratching at the window
0:54:20 > 0:54:21# I wonder who is it
0:54:21 > 0:54:26# The detectives come to check if you belong to the parents
0:54:26 > 0:54:29# Who are ready to hear the worst about their daughter's disappearance
0:54:29 > 0:54:33# It nearly took a miracle to get you to stay
0:54:33 > 0:54:37# It only took my little fingers to blow you away
0:54:39 > 0:54:42# Just like watching the detectives
0:54:42 > 0:54:46# Ooh, he's so cute
0:54:46 > 0:54:50# Just like watching the detectives
0:54:51 > 0:54:55# I get so angry when the teardrops start
0:54:55 > 0:55:00# But he can't be wounded when he's got no heart
0:55:02 > 0:55:04# He's got no heart
0:55:07 > 0:55:11# Just like watching the detectives
0:55:11 > 0:55:14# Just like watching the detectives
0:55:15 > 0:55:18# Just like watching the detectives. #
0:56:41 > 0:56:45# I want to vanish
0:56:46 > 0:56:49# This is my fondest wish
0:56:51 > 0:56:56# To go where I cannot be captured
0:56:56 > 0:57:02# Laid on a decorated dish
0:57:02 > 0:57:05# Even in splendour
0:57:06 > 0:57:10# This curious fate
0:57:11 > 0:57:16# Is more than I care to surrender
0:57:16 > 0:57:20# Now it's too late
0:57:21 > 0:57:26# Whether in wonder
0:57:26 > 0:57:30# Or indecent haste
0:57:31 > 0:57:37# You arrange the mirrors and the spools
0:57:37 > 0:57:42# To snare the rare and precious jewels
0:57:42 > 0:57:48# That were only made of paste
0:57:52 > 0:57:56# If you should stumble
0:57:56 > 0:58:01# Upon my last remark
0:58:01 > 0:58:07# I'm crying in the wilderness
0:58:07 > 0:58:13# I'm trying my best to make it dark
0:58:14 > 0:58:17# How can I tell you
0:58:17 > 0:58:22# I'm rarer than most
0:58:23 > 0:58:28# I'm certain as a lost dog
0:58:29 > 0:58:33# Pondering a signpost
0:58:34 > 0:58:39# Whether in wonder
0:58:39 > 0:58:43# Or indecent haste
0:58:45 > 0:58:51# You arrange the mirrors and the spools
0:58:51 > 0:58:56# To snare the rare and precious jewels
0:58:56 > 0:59:03# That were only made of paste
0:59:07 > 0:59:11# I want to vanish
0:59:12 > 0:59:16# This is my last request
0:59:17 > 0:59:22# I've given you the awful truth
0:59:23 > 0:59:30# Now give me my rest. #
0:59:36 > 0:59:40Subtitles by BBC Subtitling 1996