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Elvis Costello
Declan Patrick MacManus, known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author, and television host. According to Rolling Stone, Costello "reinvigorated the literate, lyrical traditions of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison with the raw energy and sass that were principal ethics of punk", noting the "construction of his songs, which set densely layered wordplay…
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2026· 23 entries
“think that they need to boycott Israel to pressure it”
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“s original songs, did most of the singing and chose the cover songs they played. None of the other members of Flip City shared Costello”
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Published video “A live rendition of “National Ransom” performed on SiriusXM in 2010. #elviscostello #2010”.
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wecb.fm: Elvis Costello celebrates 49 years of “My Aim Is True” with five-disc box set
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Indie Hoy: Elvis Costello nombra 4 músicos con un don para el canto: "Lo hacen sin esfuerzo"
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WGN-TV: James Austin Johnson's impressions of young and older Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, and Darrell Hammond! - WGN-TV
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Ringside News: AEW Named Title Sponsor for Owen Hart Foundation’s 27th Anniversary Event With Elvis Costello
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Published video “Elvis Costello performs “I Wanna Be Loved” live on Top of the Pops in 1984.”.
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Wrestling Headlines: AEW To Sponsor Owen Hart Foundation Anniversary Show Featuring Elvis Costello Concert
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Yahoo News Canada: Elvis Costello to play acoustic show Nov. 21 in Calgary in support of Owen Hart Foundation
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Indie Hoy: Las 10 mejores canciones de The Beatles según Elvis Costello
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Far Out Magazine: The four “effortless” singers Elvis Costello longed to emulate but knew he never could
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Published video “‘My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition)’ arrives October 2. Pre-order at link in bio.”.
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Published video ““Possession” was written by Elvis in just five minutes during a taxi ride back to his Holland studio”.
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Published video “Performing live on Kimmel with Juanes #elviscostello #jimmykimmel #radioradio #livemusic”.
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Published video “"Alison," performed in 1977, from the acclaimed album ‘My Aim Is True.’”.
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Published video “Elvis Costello performing "Uncomplicated", Live at Montreux Rock Festival in 1986. #shorts”.
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Published video “"TKO (Boxing Day)” performed by Elvis and the Attractions, featuring the TKO Horns and Afrodiziak.”.
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Published video “Whose the better Elvis Costello, John Hiatt or EC?”.
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Published video “The "New Amsterdam" demo was used on the final release of Get Happy!!”.
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Costello appeared alongside Stephen Colbert, Louis Cato, and Jon Batiste for the final episode of The Late Show, performing his early demo recording "Jump Up" before they joined Paul McCartney to perform "Hello, Goodbye
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Costello appeared at the 10th annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, performing a rendition of the Band's "The Weight" with Hozier, Mavis Staples, and Warren Haynes
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2025· 1 entry
Jambands: Elvis Costello Extends Retrospective “Radio Soul!” Tour, Promising Last Chance to Hear the Classics
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2024· 5 entries
brooklynvegan: Elvis Costello playing early material on 'Radio Soul!' tour ft The Imposters & Charlie Sexton
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Ultimate Classic Rock: Elvis Costello Announces 2025 ‘Early Songs’ Tour
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Washington Post: How Elvis Costello teamed up with T Bone Burnett to make one of his best albums
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The Guardian: Elvis Costello and Steve Nieve review – 50 years of hits only improved by age
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Released album “1978-02-07 Berkeley (Remastered, Live On Broadcasting)”.
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2023· 3 entries
The Guardian: Elvis Costello on writing The Juliet Letters: ‘It initially caused panic’
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New York Post: We found tickets to see Elvis Costello for $6. Here’s how to get them
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Released album “The Songs of Bacharach & Costello”.
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2022· 7 entries
Released album “Back Again”.
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Released album “Live on Air Tonight”.
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Released album “Radio Broadcast, Part One (live American radio broadcast)”.
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The Guardian: ‘After seeing Aretha Franklin you’re never the same again’: Elvis Costello’s honest playlist
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The Guardian: Elvis Costello and the Imposters: The Boy Named If review – the glory days recaptured
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The Guardian: Elvis Costello: ‘The OBE is just another bauble in my china cabinet’
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Costello and Rusty bandmate Allan Mayes reunited to record The Resurrection of Rust
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2021· 5 entries
Released album “How to Play the Guitar and Y”.
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Released ep “La Face de pendule à coucou”.
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Costello released Spanish Model, a remix of 1978's This Year's Model in Spanish
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Costello appeared at the Royal Variety Performance playing two songs with the Imposters
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Released album “Summer From the Inside”.
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2020· 2 entries
Released album “Hey Clockface”.
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Released album “Brilliant Parade”.
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting (2019).
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Was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to music
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “Detour: Live at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall”.
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2015· 3 entries
Released album “Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album”.
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Costello published Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, a memoir that had little overlap with his reissue liner notes
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Published a well-received memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
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2013· 2 entries
Released ep “Wise Up: Thought – Remixes and Reworks”.
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Released album “Wise Up Ghost”.
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2012· 5 entries
Released album “In Motion Pictures”.
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Released album “Original Album Series”.
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Played ukulele, mandolin, guitar and added backing vocals on Diana Krall's 11th studio album, Glad Rag Doll (as "Howard Coward")
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But that at the time had been shelved due to Consoli's pregnancy
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Slate magazine published a book review of the Rhino liner notes in which it called them "one of the best rock-star memoirs of the last decade"
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… – Season Two”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released ep “National Ransack EP”.
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Released album “National Ransom”.
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Released album “Pomp & Pout”.
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane”.
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2008· 4 entries
With Sting, Joe Sumner (Sting's son) and Sylvia Schwartz
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Costello collaborated with Fall Out Boy on the track "What a Catch, Donnie" from their album Folie a Deux
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“s soft drinks advertisement about a secret lemonade drinker, with his son on backing vocals. The commercial remained on television for 11 years. Although Elvis had borrowed one of his father”
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Costello began production on Spectacle: Elvis Costello with
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2007· 6 entries
Released album “iTunes Originals”.
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Released album “The First Ten Years”.
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Released album “Rock and Roll Music”.
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Costello collaborated with the Argentinean/Uruguayan electro-tango band Bajofondo on the song "Fairly Right" from the album Mar Dulce
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Released album “The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years”.
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Directed by Kasper Bech Holten at the Opera's studio theatre (Takelloftet), finished songs were interspersed with pieces from Costello's The Juliet Letters, featuring Danish soprano Sine Bundgaard as Lind
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2006· 4 entries
Released album “Hot as a Pistol, Keen as a Blade”.
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Released album “The River in Reverse”.
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Costello performed with Fiona Apple in the Decades Rock TV special
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Was a live recording of a concert with the Metropole Orkest at the North Sea Jazz Festival, My Flame Burns Blue
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “My Flame Burns Blue”.
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Released album “Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Get Emotional”.
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2003· 7 entries
Released album “Singles, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Singles, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Singles, Volume 3”.
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Released album “North”.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2003).
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Costello substituted for an ailing David Letterman as the host of Late Show with David Letterman, making him the only musical guest of the show to have served as guest host
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And into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Selections From: Armed Forces – Imperial Bedroom – Mighty Like a Rose”.
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Released album “When I Was Cruel”.
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Released album “Il sogno”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Re‐Examine (selections from All This Useless Beauty, Spike and My Aim Is True)”.
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Released album “For the Stars”.
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Costello was artist-in-residence at UCLA and wrote the music for a new ballet
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Began a second round of reissues, this time of his catalogue from 1977 through 1996, on Rhino Entertainment, and wrote even more detailed liner notes
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2000· 2 entries
Costello produced a list of "500 essential albums for a happy life" for Vanity Fair
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Costello appeared at the Town Hall, New York, in Steve Nieve's opera Welcome to the Voice, alongside Ron Sexsmith and John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants
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1999· 7 entries
Released album “The Sweetest Punch”.
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Released album “1999‐06‐16: Massey Hall, Toronto, ON, Canada”.
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Released album “Italian Nights”.
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Released album “The Very Best of Elvis Costello”.
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Released album “The Royal Festival Hall”.
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Costello contributed a version of "She", released in 1974 by Charles Aznavour and Herbert Kretzmer, for the soundtrack of the film Notting Hill, with Trevor Jones producing
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Released album “The Berwald Hall”.
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1998· 5 entries
Released album “Painted From Memory”.
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“I Still Have That Other Girl”
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Costello signed a multi-label contract with Polygram Records, sold by its parent company the same year to become part of the Universal Music Group
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Released album “The McCartney/MacManus Collaboration”.
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On the Mercury Records label, featuring songs that were largely inspired by the dissolution of his relationship with Cait O'Riordan
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Extreme Honey: The Very Best of the Warner Bros. Years”.
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1996· 7 entries
Released album “Costello & Nieve”.
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On "God Give Me Strength" for the movie Grace of My Heart
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Released album “1996‐05‐20: Paradise Theater, Boston, MA, USA”.
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Released album “1996‐05‐15: The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, USA”.
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Released album “Plugging the Gaps, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Later”.
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“last. The quartet performed their final US show in Seattle, Washington on 1 September 1996, before wrapping up their tour in Japan. Costello continued to work frequently with Attractions Steve Nieve and Pete Thomas; eventually, both became members of Costello”
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1995· 11 entries
Released album “Kojak Variety”.
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Released album “Deep Dead Blue: Live 25 June 95”.
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Released album “Sweetwater”.
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Released album “Magic & Malice”.
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Released album “A Royal Performance”.
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Released album “Jake’s Progress”.
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Released album “Stiffed Again”.
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Appeared as a guest pundit on the British football commentary television show Football Italia
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Released album “Naughty Boys”.
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Released album “Plugging the Gaps”.
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Released Kojak Variety, an album of cover songs recorded five years earlier, and followed in 1996 with an album of songs originally written for other artists, All This Useless Beauty
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1994· 3 entries
Released album “Brutal Youth”.
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Released ep “13 Steps Lead Down”.
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Duetted with Tony Bennett on "They Can't Take That Away from Me" on MTV Unplugged, appearing on the album released from the broadcast
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1993· 6 entries
Released album “Live at New York Town Hall”.
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Released album “The Juliet Letters”.
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Costello collaborated with the Brodsky Quartet on The Juliet Letters
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Costello began reissuing his catalogue of albums from 1977 through 1986, on Rykodisc, and wrote detailed liner notes for each reissued album
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Released album “Live USA”.
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Released album “The Great Lost Album”.
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1992· 3 entries
Released album “This Is Tomorrow”.
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Released album “Do the Rumba”.
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Released album “Angry Young Sod”.
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1991· 6 entries
Released album “G.B.H.: Original Music From the Channel Four Series”.
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Released album “Mighty Like a Rose”.
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Released album “Elvis Goes to Paris… and the Attractions Don’t”.
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Costello released Mighty Like a Rose, which featured the single "The Other Side of Summer"
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Released album “Unplugged & Unshaved”.
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Released album “In the District of Columbia”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Pump”.
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1989· 4 entries
Released album “Girls Girls Girls”.
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Released album “Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls, Volume Two”.
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Released album “Spike”.
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Released album “The Elvis Costello Hour”.
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1987· 4 entries
Released album “Out of Our Idiot”.
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Released album “Limited Edition Interview Picture Disc”.
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Costello appeared on the HBO special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, a tribute to his long-time idol Roy Orbison
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Released a compilation album, Out of Our Idiot, on his UK label Demon Records; this consists of B-sides, side projects, and unreleased songs from recording sessions from 1980 to 1987
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1986· 2 entries
Released album “King of America”.
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When Costello was preparing to make a comeback
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1985· 3 entries
Released album “The Man: The Best of Elvis Costello”.
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In early 1985, Costello began a romantic relationship with Cait O'Riordan, then bass player for the Pogues, whom he met in October 1984 while their respective bands were on tour together.
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Costello sang the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" at Wembley Stadium for Live Aid
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “A Man Out of Time”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released Punch the Clock, featuring female backing vocal duo Afrodiziak and four-piece horn section the TKO Horns, alongside the Attractions
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “A Conversation With Elvis Costello (in Which He Talks About the Tracks From His New Album ‘Imperial Bedroom’)”.
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When the B-side single "Imperial Bedroom" was credited to Napoleon Dynamite & the Royal Guard
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1980· 4 entries
Released album “Taking Liberties”.
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Released ep “New Amsterdam”.
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As "Ghost Train", although by then little remained of the Rusty version except the central narrative idea of a married double act making their way through the low end of show business
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Released album “Something New”.
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “Live at the Palamino”.
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Released album “Deluxe”.
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1978· 3 entries
Released album “This Year’s Model”.
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Released album “The Last Foxtrot”.
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Released album “Live at the El Mocambo”.
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1977· 2 entries
Released album “My Aim Is True”.
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Costello told Allan Jones that he had written hundreds of songs
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1976· 1 entry
Lack of money forced Costello, his wife and their toddler son to move in with relatives near Heathrow Airport, on the far west side of Greater London
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1975· 1 entry
They have one child, Matthew MacManus, born in early 1975.
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1973· 2 entries
When he worked as a clerk at the Midland Bank Putney branch, he continued to work full-time as a computer operator until a few weeks before his first album was released in July 1977
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Costello formed Flip City with fellow folk rock fans
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1972· 3 entries
And, still living at home with his mother, set out to find a job that would earn him a steady wage while he pursued a career in music
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Including the early version of "Ghost Train", then called "Maureen and Sam"
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Allan Mayes invited Costello to join his folk rock band Rusty
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1967· 1 entry
“I always dreamed that I might one day stand in the boots of [Liverpool footballer] Albert Stubbins.”
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1963· 1 entry
Was exactly the right age to experience the full force of Beatles fandom as he grew up
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-08-25.
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1951· 1 entry
Took a job in the record department in Selfridges department store and continued selling records through the 1960s
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1927· 1 entry
Costello's mother, Lillian MacManus (née Ablett, 1927–2021), was born and raised in Toxteth, Liverpool, the daughter of a gas-main layer and a mother who became increasingly disabled by rheumatoid arthritis as Lillian grew up.
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