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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Brian Griffin, Elvis Costello And The Attractions 'Armed, 1978
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Brian Griffin, Elvis Costello And The Attractions 'Armed, 1978

Brian Griffin

Elvis Costello And The Attractions 'Armed, 1978
Archival Pigment Print
40.6 x 30.5 cm
Series: From the original album cover
Signed on verso
© Brian Griffin
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This was the first photograph that I took of Elvis Costello, on location in the Hollywood Hills, lying on the diving board at a home owned by some record executive…...
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This was the first photograph that I took of Elvis Costello, on location in the Hollywood Hills, lying on the diving board at a home owned by some record executive… - Brian Griffin

"I was commissioned by Bruce Bernard, picture editor of The Sunday Times magazine, to shoot a feature about Elvis Costello And The Attractions. I flew to LA and stayed at the famous but horrendously cheap Tropicana Motel with the band and their support, Rockpile. I remember seeing Tom Waits peering out of his room on the ground floor watching what we were up to. The diving board inner sleeve photograph I shot at a record executive's house up in the Hollywood Hills. The underwater swimmer is Attractions drummer Pete Thomas.

All the other photographs were taken around the Tropicana, apart from one which I took in front of Hollywood High where the bands were playing that same evening. Elvis and I went to see Bob Dylan playing at the Hollywood Bowl and we had seats right up front. (…)

I took the pictures back to Bernard in London. You never knew when to show your work to bruce. Should you show him after lunch when he'd be pissed, or in the morning when he would be suffering from hungover. I tried him in the hungover morning and he promptly rejected the lot.

Luckily Jake Riviera, Elvis's manager, said he'd take them all and they ended up on several of Elvis' album sleeves down the line."
- Brian Griffin, from the POP book, GOST Books, 2017.

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