How fitting the king of gladiators should honor the King of Rock n' Roll on stage with Elvis Costello. Costello started cranking out a set-your-truck-on-fire-and-fall-in-love rendition of "Trouble" starting at 5:59 or so, and then Crowe joins him at 7:20 or so, where the video above will begin playing. (They also played Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues.")
It strikes me again and again how cultural icons and artifacts live on and on. Something about this song, and Elvis Presley, still raises people's spirits, enough that they want to invite the world to share what they feel. Then again, I groove on musicians from every era. Bach, Mozart, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Devo, Tom Waits, Nirvana, Coldplay, Jay-Z and more all make life give me the chills in different ways. What makes something immortal?
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