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Costello, Elvis.
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Costello, Elvis.
Rock musicians -- England -- Biography.
Musicians -- England -- Biography.
Lyricists -- England -- Biography.
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Unfaithful music and disappearing ink / Elvis Costello.
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Costello, Elvis.
Call #:
781
.66092
C841u
Subjects
Costello, Elvis.
Rock musicians -- England -- Biography.
Musicians -- England -- Biography.
Lyricists -- England -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780399167256 (hc.)
0399167250 (hc.)
Description:
674 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Contents:
A white boy in the Hammersmith Palais -- Then they expect you to pick a career -- Don't start me talking -- Ask me why -- Beyond belief -- London's brilliant parade -- The first time ever I saw your face -- Roll up for the Ghost Train -- Almost Liverpool -- Welcome to the working week -- No trams to Lime Street -- I hear the train a-comin' -- Unfaithful music -- Scene at 6.30 -- Unfaithful servant -- There's a girl in a window -- It mek -- America without tears -- Accidents may happen -- I love the sound of breaking glass -- What do I have to do to make you love me? -- Talking in the dark -- Is he really going out with her? -- Diving for dear life -- It's a wonderful life -- The color of the blues -- The identity parade -- The river in reverse -- That's when a thrill becomes a hurt -- I want to vanish -- Put away forbidden playthings -- They never got me for the thing I really did -- A voice in the dark -- Country darkness / narrow daylight -- I'm in the mood again -- Down among the wines and spirits -- Postscript: The black tongue of the North End.
Summary:
"Born Declan Patrick MacManus, singer-songwriter Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star Line and son of a jazz musician who became a successful radio dance-band vocalist. Costello went into the family business and before he was twenty-four took the popular music world by storm. Costello continues to add to one of the most intriguing and extensive songbooks of our day. His performances have taken him from strumming a cardboard guitar in his parents' front room to fronting a rock and roll band on our television screens and performing in the world's greatest concert halls in a wild variety of company. How Costello’s career has endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning, even managing the occasional absurd episode of pop stardom. His unique view of his unlikely and sometimes comical rise to international success, with pauses along the way for considerations of the less appealing side of fame. The stories and emotions behind many of his beloved songs. Costello recounts his collaborations with George Jones, Chet Baker, and T Bone Burnett, and writes about Allen Toussaint's inspiring return to work after the disasters following Hurricane Katrina. Costello chronicles his musical apprenticeship, a child's view of his father Ross MacManus' career on radio and in the dancehall; his own initial almost comical steps in folk clubs and cellar dive before his first sessions for Stiff Record, the formation of the Attractions, and his frenetic and ultimately notorious third U.S. tour. The idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man."--Publisher.
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