In 19 84, alvas costello released his ninth album, good bye cruel world. The record was produced by two legends of the british music scene at the time, clive langer and allan winstanley. This episode is about one song on that album: Deportees club. i'm interested in understanding how creativity works. And i've chosen depotees club as my case study for the purely arbitrary reason that i'm obsessed with it - you will be too once we're finished.
How does genius emerge? An exploration of different types of innovation—through the lens of Elvis Costello’s extraordinary song “Deportee,” once utterly forgettable and then, through time and iteration, a work of beauty and genius.
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