Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus (London, 25 August 1954), better known as Elvis Costello, is a British musician, singer and songwriter of Irish descent. His first name comes from Elvis Presley; his last name is that of his mother.



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[hide] *1 Career  ==Career[ Edit] == Costello worked as a computerProgrammer in the middle 1970s and entered into folkclubs as D.P. Costello and was an early member of the pubrockscene in London. In 1977 he released his first album, My Aim Is True, that still was recorded with musicians from the American band Clover (forerunner of Huey Lewis and the News). After Costello got a solid backing band. The Attractions, consisting of bassist Bruce Thomas, keyboardist Steve Nieve and drummer Pete Thomas. On the albums This year's Model (1978) and Armed Forces (1979) changed his style to punk rock and new wave; "Chelsea", "Radio Radio", "Oliver's Army" and "Accidents Will Happen" were hits.
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3 external links

Get Happy with the soulgetinte (1980) began a search for a distinctive sound; This album was preceded by the Sam & Dave-cover "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" originally on the 2 Tonelabel of his favorite ska band The Specials would appear, but Warner knew through to avoid legal action. Already pressed copies were eventually sought after collectibles.

Costello went to Nashville In 1981 to the country filled with covers- Almost Blue album include; John McFee, old-Clover-guitarist and now member of the Doobie Brothers, cooperation was received. "What a good Year for the Roses" was a hit.

In 1982 the Imperial Bedroom and praised Costello wrote for Robert Wyatt "Shipbuilding", an indictment of the Falklands war. Madness-in this number also played bass player Mark Bedford with it. In return, went into the studio with Costello early 1983 the nutty boys to release a new version to record their hit "tomorrow's (Just Another Day)". Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, the fixed producers of Madness, were then selected for Punch the Clock and Goodbye Cruel World; These albums showed a fuller, hear and gepolijster were by the critics (but also by Costello himself) dismissed as the worst in his overall body of work.

In 1986, Costello released two albums; King of America (solo; produced by T Bone Burnett) and Blood & chocolate (with the Attractions); the latter yielded the hit "I Want You" on, but also the threat of litigation because the cover design on the packaging of a chocolate bar appeared. At a concert in Netherlands was invited as a guest Freek de Jonge .

Costello then went with a Paul McCartneysongwriting team; most songs published in 1989 on the respective albums Spike and Flowers In The Dirt. The rest ended up in 1991 on Mighty Like A Rose; This album fell by correcting Costello because of its move to the cold Ireland had left long hair and a beard. His new (temporary) backing band was The Rude 5 with pianist Derek The Draw Hussey, currently the Deputy to Ian Dury at the Blockheads.

In 1992, Costello wrote all the songs for the solo album from Transvision Vamp Wendy James -singer and worked with the Brodsky Quartet on The Juliet Letters; both published in 1993.

Between 1994 and 1996, Costello worked together again with the Attractions; Brutal Youth brought the sound of This year's Model and Armed Forces in memory, but of ' back to basics ' Costello wanted to know nothing. This was followed by The Kojak Variety (1995; five years in advance included) and All This Useless Beauty.

He also worked together with Anne Sofie von Otter and Burt Bacharach, and he took Charles Aznavour's "She" as the title song for the film Notting Hill; it attained a high listing in the charts.

In 2004, he was on the North Sea Jazz Festival accompanied by the Metropole Orchestra. Its affinity with classical music is also reflected in the fact that he recently the famous albums classic Deutsche Grammophon record label . In 2005 Costello wrote a opera about the life of the Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen was commissioned by the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Many of Costello's albums were produced by Nick Lowe. Costello also regularly acts on itself as a producer, among other things for The Pogues. Costello remarried in 1986 with the latter band's bass player, Caitlin O'Riordan. This marriage lasted until the beginning of 21st century. Meanwhile, Costello, now married for the third time withjazzsinger and pianist Diana Krall. In december 2006 she was a twin.

<p lang="en" len="117" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2007, Costello reunited during a benefit concert with Clover to add songs to play from My Aim Is True . ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===