Spectacle: Elvis Costello with...
Intimate interviews between host Elvis Costello and various musical guests intertwined with performances by Costello, the guests, and duets between the two.
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Seasons
1.Pilot: Elton John
03-12-20081hElvis interviewed/conversed with Elton John for most of the show. They reminisced about great singers, piano players and performers they knew or played with. Elton talked a great d...
2.Lou Reed + Julian Schnabel
10-12-20081hLou Reed joins Elvis for his interview/performance show. Reed, the Velvet Underground legend, discusses music, creativity and all things New York : including music, art and the old...
3.Bill Clinton
17-12-20081hFormer President Bill Clinton joins Elvis for his interview/performance show. The 42nd President comments on musicians who influenced his life and, according to the Sundance web si...
4.James Taylor
24-12-20081hJames Taylor joins Elvis for his interview/performance show. The legendary 'singer-songwriter' comments on his life, his times and the writers and musicians who influenced his four...
5.Tony Bennett
31-12-20081hTwo of the greatest performers of their respective generations discuss the people and the songs which make up the history of modern popular music. Tony Bennett, the irrepressible 8...
6.The Police
07-01-20091hThe format of Elvis' fantastic interview/performance show changes this week as Elvis interviews The Police both as a group and individually (perhaps wise as Andy, Sting and Stewart...
7.Rufus Wainwright
14-01-20091hThings calm down a bit this week, at least in volume, as Rufus Wainwright joins Elvis for his unique and fascinating interview/performance show. The flamboyant young singer-songwri...
8.Kris Kristofferson, Rosanne Cash, Norah Jones, John Mellencamp
21-01-20091hThe format of Elvis' fantastic interview/performance show changes yet again as a major, magical musical surprise is pulled from Elvis' hat. And by pulled, I mean as in a "guitar pu...
9.Renée Fleming
28-01-20091hElvis' eclectic interview/performance show goes highbrow this week as he welcomes the internationally acclaimed opera star Renée Fleming to Spectacle. The famous soprano regales th...
10.Herbie Hancock
04-02-20091hThe legendary Herbie Hancock is the next stop on Elvis' colorful, eclectic interview/performance 'tour' of the western worlds variegated music scene. A child prodigy, Herbie's care...
11.She & Him, Jenny Lewis, Jakob Dylan
11-02-20091hSpectacle's wild circus mix of interview and performance returns to the younger side of the musical mosaic with this fascinating familial portrait. A group of young artists who hai...
12.Diana Krall and Elton John
18-02-20091hSince the penultimate Spectacle episode of the year is 'something completely different', as Monty Python once put it, the producers even changed the title of the show from 'Elvis C...
13.Smokey Robinson
25-02-20091hLucky number 13, the final curtain call of the season on Elvis' vibrant and truly unique interview and performance driven magical mystery musical tour, closes with a true American...
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