Elvis Costello recalled a disastrous trip to Japan early in his career on Conan Wednesday night, admitting the Japanese were so uninterested in his music, he couldn’t even give it away.

Costello told Conan O’Brien that he and his band had concocted what seemed like a foolproof plan to become stars in the…

Source: RollingStone
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