14 May 1991
Music is rife with artists whose stylistic changes invoke ire from fans. In 1965, Bob Dylan angered the purists when he plugged in an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival; Miles Davis controversially embraced a rock-leaning type of jazz fusion in the late 1960s; and in the early 1990s, Elvis Costello grew a beard and released
Mighty Like a Rose.
For Costello who careened onto the punk/new wave scene in 1977 with coke bottle glasses, a slim-fitting suit, and attitude to spare as he sneered into the camera on the cover of debut LP
My Aim Is True long hair and a beard were tantamount to treason. Yet, there he was on the front of