Elvis Costello

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Costello, 2005

Elvis Costello OBE (born August 25, 1954 in London ; actually Declan Patrick MacManus ) is a British musician .

Musical career

Beginnings

Elvis Costello 1978

Elvis Costello, whose real name is Declan McManus, is the son of Ross McManus (1927-2011), an English singer and trumpeter who was successful in the 1950s and 1960s . Costello grew up in London and moved to Birkenhead for a short time with his mother in 1971 at the age of 17 after his parents separated . Here he and a friend formed a folk duo called Rusty .

Back in London in 1973, he played in folk clubs under the name DP Costello - the name Costello comes from his paternal great-grandmother and had already been used as a pseudonym by his father. In 1974 he founded the pub rock band Flip City , made demo recordings and went looking for a label.

In 1977 he was signed by Jake Riviera for the Stiff Records label . On the advice of his manager, he changed his stage name to Elvis Costello (after Elvis Presley ). Costello's appearance initially reminded one of Buddy Holly through the large glasses . His first album, My Aim Is True , was released in the year the contract was signed . The backing band was the band Clover , which originally came from San Francisco and also appeared with Huey Lewis as a singer before this was successful with Huey Lewis and the News . This first album was already successful in the British charts. It was then released via Columbia in the USA, where it reached the Top 40 on the Billboard charts and became a million seller after a memorable television appearance on Saturday Night Live . With Watching the Detectives he also had a single hit in the UK charts. The following year he was nominated for a Grammy for best newcomer.

He next followed Riviera to Radar Records . The following albums, This Year's Model and Armed Forces , also produced by Nick Lowe , were even more successful and were able to advance to the top of the charts, especially in England. For this he put together a permanent backing band under the name The Attractions , which played with him for most of his career. The album productions became more complex, stylistically he changed from the pub rock of the first album to pop rock sounds. This Year's Model was voted 98th of the 500 best albums of all time in a survey by Rolling Stone magazine in 2003 , and its predecessor and successor also made it onto the best list, as did the later album Imperial Bedroom . Three songs from the first three albums are in the corresponding song list in the magazine. One of his best known and most successful songs comes from Armed Forces , Oliver's Army . At number two in the UK charts, it is his top-ranked song. The album also reached number two and was his best-ranked album in the US at number 10. His success there was not diminished even by a minor scandal. During a verbal battle in a Florida pub , he disparaged himself about African American musicians. Costello had to cancel his US tour, despite apologizing and performing on Rock Against Racism . As a result, sales for the album Armed Forces fell , but it was still another million seller.

1980s

Live at the Metropol-Theater Berlin, May 1980

Back in England, Costello became the producer of the Specials , one of the most successful English Ska bands alongside Madness . In 1980 his fourth album Get Happy! Was released, which was influenced by old Motown and Stax recordings . For the second time he followed Riviera to its new label F. Beat . Costello was not as successful with the album, but it contained a number 4 hit with I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down .

The next album, called Trust , was released a year later and contained a mix of styles from various musical styles to jazz sounds. The second album in 1981 was Almost Blue , a country cover album produced by successful country producer Billy Sherrill . Costello's fans went along with his style change. The single A Good Year for the Roses was the third of his three top ten hits in the British single charts. Imperial Bedroom appeared in 1982 . Geoff Emerick , who had become known for editing several Beatles albums , ensured the technical quality . Costello also performed the songs on the album live in London with his companion band The Attractions and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra . Although it wasn't quite as commercially successful, the pop album came 166th on the Rolling Stone list.

In 1983 Costello recorded the pop-oriented album Punch the Clock with producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley , on which, in addition to Caron Wheeler and Claudia Fontaine alias Afrodiziak, the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker participated as background singers in a brass section (TKO horns) .

In 1984 Costello was also a producer for the folk-punk band The Pogues , with whom he also appeared at concerts and whose bassist Cait O'Riordan he subsequently married. In the same year the album Goodbye Cruel World , which was again produced with Langer and Winstanley, was released , and when it was re-released on CD in 1995 he wrote: “Congratulations! You've just purchased our worst album ”(“ Congratulations! You just bought our worst album ”).

Costello had released nine studio albums in eight years. 1985 was the first year in which there was no new album, instead a single with T Bone Burnett and two best-of albums in Great Britain and the USA were released. The US album became his third million seller. The following year he returned with King of America , where he worked for the first time again (almost) without the "Attractions" and instead worked with studio musicians in Los Angeles. As an artist name he chose The Costello Show . Stylistically, he turned back more to the rock and country of earlier works; but it was the first album after the debut album that missed the top ten. Blood and Chocolate , which was released in the same year , continued the recourse to its musical beginnings. With Nick Lowe he hired the producer of his second album again and the Attractions were there again.

After 1986 a break followed, Costello took a break and switched to Warner . He also parted ways with Attractions in the following productions. Only after three years did a new album appear in 1989, the rock-pop hit Spike . The album is one of his more successful, gaining gold status in the UK and USA . The single Veronica , on which the song's co-writer Paul McCartney can be heard, became his most successful in the United States.

1990s

On the album Mighty Like a Rose (1991) - as well as on McCartney's albums from this time - you can hear some common songs by Costello and McCartney. With this album he entered the charts for the first time in Switzerland.

From 1992 he worked with the strings of the Brodsky Quartet . The result was the album The Juliet Letters . In the 1990s, Costello became increasingly interested in classical music . In 1993 he wrote the songs for the singer Wendy James' debut album . In 1994 he published his first film music, which he composed with Richard Harvey for the BBC series GBH . In the same year he appeared with Tony Bennett on MTV Unplugged .

After various musical excursions, he returned to the rough recordings of the early years in 1994. He reunited with Attractions for two albums. Brutal Youth became a rock album, even though Mitchell Froom was reluctant to produce it. He also went on a world tour with the band. All This Useless Beauty , published two years later, contained new recordings of songs that Costello had originally written for other artists such as Johnny Cash , Dusty Springfield , Aimee Mann and Roger McGuinn . This ended the time with the attractions.

In between, a solo album with the title Kojak Variety with lesser known, older cover songs was released in 1995 , which received relatively little attention. The orientation towards the 1960s also led to the collaboration with Burt Bacharach . At first they just recorded the song God Give Me Strength together and then decided to work on a collaboration album, which was released in 1998. Painted from Memory was widely recognized and for the song I Still Have That Other Girl both were awarded a Grammy for best pop performance as a duet.

Costello's rendition of the Bacharach classic I'll Never Fall In Love Again is part of the Austin Powers 2 soundtrack , in which he had a brief appearance with Bacharach as a street musician. Another cinematic engagement at the time was an appearance in Spiceworld - The Movie of the Spice Girls . He also composed a contribution to the soundtrack of The Big Lebowski . With the title She can be heard on the soundtrack for Notting Hill as an interpreter.

From 2000

Elvis Costello and Diana Krall 2009
Keith Richards and Elvis Costello - Appearance on February 26, 2012 for Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen , first recipients of the Pen Award for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence, at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston

Another foray into classical music followed in 2001. In collaboration with the Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter , whom he admired , he released the album For the Stars, one of the more successful forays into pop music by a classical music giant. The album earned him his first chart placement in Germany.

This also affected his next album. With When I Was Cruel , Costello released his own rock album for a long time in 2002. This was the first time he hit the charts in all German-speaking countries, and in the USA it was only his third album to make it into the top 20. In addition, his tour musicians formed the new backing band The Imposters , including Steve Nieve from Attractions. In 2003 Elvis Costello was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .

In the meantime, Costello had entered into a relationship with the Canadian jazz musician Diana Krall , whom he married in late 2003. This also had a great influence on his next album North , which corresponds to a song cycle with classical and jazz influences. He also worked on a coherent work on his next album, this time again in the direction of rock. However, he rejected his original concept, and The Delivery Man also became more of a song cycle. On the album, released in 2004, he was officially accompanied by the Imposters. In the same year, Costello appeared at the Academy Awards with T-Bone Burnett to present a co-composed and Oscar nominated song for the film On the Road to Cold Mountain . In 2004 he also recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra Il Sogno , composed for a ballet performance of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night 's Dream .

When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005 , Costello was one of the musicians who performed at benefit concerts for the victims of the disaster. There he met the city-born blues musician Allen Toussaint . This resulted in a collaboration that resulted in the album The River in Reverse . Other contributors are The Imposters , The Crescent City Horns and Anthony Brown . The album, which includes classics by Toussaint and new songs by the two, was nominated for a Grammy for best pop album. In March 2006, a new album was also released with a concert recording from July 2004, when Costello performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague with the Metropole Orkest under the direction of Vince Mendoza . The live recording offers a cross-section of his musical work from rock 'n' roll of the eighties (Clubland) to chamber music (Put Away Forbidden Playthings) of the nineties. Both albums were only successful in the USA, but did not make it into the top 100. In June 2006 Costello appeared at the Decades of Rock 2006 and played songs by both musicians with Billie Joe Armstrong , for example Alison from Elvis Costello and Basket Case from Green Day .

His next release was a rock album with the Imposters. Momofuku (the title is reminiscent of the inventor of instant noodles Momofuku Andō ). He did not get into the charts in Great Britain again, which meant the longest time without chart success in his home country.

In 2009 he worked with T-Bone Burnett and he tried his hand at country folk again. The album Secret, Profane and Sugarcane was well received in the US, where it returned to the top 20. Only a year later, National Ransom appeared , also with Burnett, with whom he followed up on the predecessor musically and in terms of success.

On May 15, 2010, Costello canceled two concerts in Israel in protest against the Israeli settlement policy and the repression of the Palestinian population. In a statement on his website, he wrote: “I have to believe that the audience for the concerts would have consisted of many people who question their government's settlement policies and condemn conditions that intimidate, humiliate and worse, subject Palestinian civilians in the name of national security. I apologize deeply to the disappointed concert-goers and the organizers. "

After that, Costello took another break from production, releasing a luxury live album with the Imposters (price $ 262) and a compilation of his score, before returning with a new production in 2013. Again he tried a new approach by giving his older songs a new look together with the hip-hop group The Roots . With the album he achieved good chart positions, also in German-speaking countries.

In July 2018, Costello had to interrupt his tour because he suffered from a “small but very malignant cancer”.

Private

Costello is married for the third time. The first marriage was in 1974 with Mary Burgoyne, with whom he had a son in 1975. In 1986 he married the former Pogues musician Cait O'Riordan ; the couple divorced in 2002.

In 2003 Costello married the Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall , and in December 2006 the couple had twins. The album North is about the new relationship.

Instruments

Preferred for its acoustic guitar Elvis Costello Western guitars of American traditional manufacturer Gibson . In his honor, brought Gibson Elvis Costello Limited - signature guitar out. For electric guitars, he prefers models from Fender .

Others

  • In the sitcom Frasier , in episode 20 of the tenth season, Costello plays an unemployed folk musician who temporarily drives the Crane brothers out of their refuge in Café Nervosa. When he got the long-awaited job at a bank, he made it possible for the two psychologists to return to their regular café.
  • For episode two of the second season of Dr. House provided Costello with a cover version of Beautiful (Original: Christina Aguilera ). The song is played at the end when House is rehearsing a motorcycle; At the beginning of the episode, the original was heard on the patient of the week. The piece was first released in full length on the original soundtrack for the series in late 2007.
  • In the Simpsons episode It's only Rock 'n' Roll (Originally How I Spent My Strummer Vacation ) Elvis Costello can be seen as a cartoon character together with other well-known rock musicians and also speaks the role himself.

Discography

List of albums, compilations and singles with the date of release ( UK and US ) and the name of the label (UK and US).

Albums

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, comments, publication) 		Remarks publication
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1977 My Aim Is True - - - UK14th
silver
silver

(12 weeks)UK 		US32
platinum
platinum

(36 weeks)US
168th place of the Rolling Stone 500
recorded with Clover , the early band of Huey Lewis
Stiff SEEZ 3 / Columbia 35037
July 22, 1977 (UK)
1978 This Year's Model - - - UK4th
gold
gold

(14 weeks)UK 		US30th
gold
gold

(17 weeks)US
Place 98 of the Rolling Stone 500
with its own backing band, later The Attractions named
 Radar RAD 3 / Columbia 35331
March 17, 1978 (UK)
1979 Armed Forces - - - UK2
platinum
platinum

(28 weeks)UK 		US10
gold
gold

(17 weeks)US
… And the Attractions (UK only)
Place 482 of the Rolling Stone 500
 Radar RAD 14 / Columbia 35709
January 5, 1979
1980 Get Happy! - - - UK2
gold
gold

(14 weeks)UK 		US11 (15 weeks)
US
... and the attractions
 F-Beat XXLP1 / Columbia 36347
February 15, 1980
1981 Trust - - - UK9 (7 weeks)
UK 		US28 (15 weeks)
US
... and the attractions
 F-Beat XXLP 11 / Columbia 37051
January 23, 1981
Almost Blue - - - UK7th
gold
gold

(18 weeks)UK 		US50 (13 weeks)
US
... and the attractions
 F-Beat XXLP 13 / Columbia 37562
October 23, 1981
1982 Imperial Bedroom - - - UK6 (12 weeks)
UK 		US30 (25 weeks)
US
... and the Attractions
Place 166 of the Rolling Stone 500
 F-Beat XXLP 17 / Columbia 38157
July 2, 1982
1983 Punch the clock - - - UK3 (13 weeks)
UK 		US24 (24 weeks)
US
... and the attractions
 F-Beat XXLP 19 / Columbia 38897
August 5, 1983
1984 Goodbye Cruel World - - - UK10
silver
silver

(10 weeks)UK 		US35 (21 weeks)
US
... and the attractions
 F-Beat ZL 70317 / Columbia 39429
June 18, 1984
1986 King of America - - - UK11
silver
silver

(10 weeks)UK 		US39 (18 weeks)
US
as The Costello Show (UK)
re-entry in UK 1995 for one week
 F-Beat ZL 70496 / Columbia 40173
February 21, 1986
Blood and Chocolate - - - UK16
gold
gold

(5 weeks)UK 		US84 (11 weeks)
US
... and the attractions
 Imp XFIEND 80 / Columbia 40518
September 15, 1986
1989 Spike - - - UK5
gold
gold

(16 weeks)UK 		US32
gold
gold

(25 weeks)US 		Warner WX 238 / Warner 25848
February 6, 1989
1991 Mighty like a rose - - CH35 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK5
silver
silver

(6 weeks)UK 		US55 (7 weeks)
US 		Warner WX 419 / Warner 26575
May 10, 1991
1993 The Juliet Letters - - - UK18 (3 weeks)
UK 		US125 (8 weeks)
US
with the Brodsky Quartet
Warner 2451 802 / Warner 45180
January 15, 1993
1994 Brutal Youth - - CH40 (1 week)
CH 		UK2
silver
silver

(6 weeks)UK 		US34 (10 weeks)
US
... and the attractions
 Warner 2455 352 / Warner 45535
March 8, 1994
1995 Kojak Variety - - - UK21 (3 weeks)
UK 		US102 (3 weeks)
US
Cover album
 Warner 2459 032 / Warner 45903
May 9, 1995
1996 All This Useless Beauty - - - UK28 (5 weeks)
UK 		US53 (5 weeks)
US
... and the attractions
 Warner 2461 982 / Warner 46198
May 14, 1996
1998 Painted from memory - - - UK32
silver
silver

(5 weeks)UK 		US78 (6 weeks)
US 		Mercury 538 002-2
September 29, 1998
2001 For the stars DE59 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - UK67 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
Anne Sofie from Otter meets Elvis Costello
 Deutsche Grammophon 4695302
April 10, 2001
2002 When I Was Cruel DE60 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT73 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH58 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK17th
silver
silver

(5 weeks)UK 		US20 (9 weeks)
US 		Mercury 5868292 / Iceland 586775
April 23, 2002
Cruel smile - - - - US180 (1 week)
US
… And the Imposter's
unreleased studio and live recordings
 Iceland 063388
October 1, 2002
2003 North DE84 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - UK44 (1 week)
UK 		US57 (3 weeks)
US 		Deutsche Grammophon 9809656 / Deutsche Grammophon 000999
September 23, 2003
2004 The Delivery Man DE100 (1 week)
DE 		- - UK73 (1 week)
UK 		US40 (4 weeks)
US
... and the Imposters
 Lost Highway 9863727 / Lost Highway 002593
September 21, 2004
2006 The river in reverse - - - UK97 (1 week)
UK 		US103 (3 weeks)
US 		Verve 985 605-7
June 6, 2006
My Flame Burns Blue - - - - US188 (1 week)
US
Live album with the Metropole Orkest
Deutsche Grammophon
February 28, 2006
2008 Momofuku - - - - US59 (1 week)
US
... and the Imposters
 Universal
April 22, 2008 (LP)
2009 Secret, Profane and Sugarcane - - - UK71 (1 week)
UK 		US13 (6 weeks)
US 		Hearmusic 7231280 (UK)
June 9, 2009
2010 National ransomware - - - UK71 (1 week)
UK 		US39 (2 weeks)
US 		Concord / Decca 7232142 (UK)
October 25, 2010
2013 Wise Up Ghost (And Other Songs 2013) DE29 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT48 (1 week)
AT 		CH12 (4 weeks)
CH 		UK28 (2 weeks)
UK 		US16 (4 weeks)
US
... and the roots
Blue Note 3744054 (UK)
September 17, 2013
2018 Look now DE32 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT21 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH37 (1 week)
CH 		UK14 (2 weeks)
UK 		US46 (1 week)
US
... and the Imposters
with EP Regarde Maintenant
Grammy ( Pop )
 October 12, 2018

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Compilations and best-of albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, comments, publication) 		Remarks publication
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1980 Taking liberties - - - - US28 (14 weeks)
US
... and the Attractions
US compilation mainly with
recordings that were previously only released in Europe
 Columbia 36839
September 1980
1985 The Best of Elvis Costello - The Man - - - UK8 (29 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
 Telstar STAR 2247
April 1985
The Best of Elvis Costello & the Attractions - - - - US116
platinum
platinum

(16 weeks)US
... and the attractions
 Columbia 40101
November 1985
1989 Girls, girls, girls - - - UK67 (1 week)
UK 		-
Double LP / CD
 Demon DFIEND 160
October 1989
1994 The Very Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions - - - UK57 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
 Demon DPAM 13
October 25, 1994
1999 The Very Best of Elvis Costello - - - UK4th
gold
gold

(16 weeks)UK 		- Universal 5464902
September 21, 1999
2007 The Best Of - The First 10 Years - - - - US110 (1 week)
US 		Hip-O
May 1, 2007
2015 Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album - - - UK96 (1 week)
UK 		-
Double album with two previously unreleased songs
 Universal
October 30, 2015

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More albums

  • Live at the El Mocambo (1978, live album)
  • Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers (UK 1980 - only as cassette, compilation of B-sides and outtakes ; UK:silversilver)
  • Out of Our Idiot (1987, compilation, UK:silversilver)
  • GBH ( Richard Harvey & Elvis Costello, 1991, television soundtrack)
  • 2½ Years (1993, 4-CD box)
  • Jake's Progress (Richard Harvey & Elvis Costello, 1995, television soundtrack)
  • Deep Dead Blue (1995, live album)
  • Costello & Nieve (with Steve Nason, 1996, live album)
  • Extreme Honey (1997, compilation)
  • Singles, Volume 1-3 (UK 2003, compilation)
  • Il sogno (Elvis Costello & London Symphony Orchestra & Michael Tilson Thomas , 2004)
  • Piano Jazz (Elvis Costello with Marian McPartland , 2005)
  • Rock and Roll Music (2007, compilation)
  • Live at Hollywood High (2010, live album)
  • The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook (Elvis Costello & the Imposters, 2012, live album, recorded in Los Angeles)
  • In Motion Pictures (2012, compilation with film music)

Re-releases

Elvis Costello's albums were reissued twice, mostly with bonus material, in the 1990s by the Rykodisc label and in the first half of the 2000s by Rhino Records .

Rykodisc

  • My Aim Is True / This Year's Model / Armed Forces (October 19, 1993)
  • Get Happy / Trust (April 26, 1994)
  • Almost Blue / Imperial Bedroom (August 30, 1994)
  • GBH (September 5, 1994)
  • Punch the Clock / Goodbye Cruel World (March 7, 1995)
  • King of America (July 6, 1995)
  • Blood and Chocolate (September 12, 1995)

Rhino

  • The Very Best of Elvis Costello (April 17, 2001)
  • My Aim Is True / Spike / All This Useless Beauty (August 11, 2001)
  • This Year's Model / Blood and Chocolate / Brutal Youth (February 19, 2002)
  • Armed Forces / Imperial Bedroom / Mighty Like a Rose (November 19, 2002)
  • Get Happy / Trust / Punch the Clock (September 9, 2003)
  • Almost Blue / Goodbye Cruel World / Kojak Variety (August 3, 2004)
  • King of America (April 26, 2005)
  • The Juliet Letters (March 21, 2006)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
UK UK US US
1977 Watchin 'the Detectives
My Aim Is True 		UK15 (11 weeks)
UK 		-
318th place in the Rolling Stone 500
1978 (I Don't Wanna Go To) Chelsea
This Year's Model 		UK16 (10 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
Pump It Up
This Year's Model 		UK24 (10 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the Attractions
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Radio, Radio
This Year's Model 		UK29 (7 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
1979 Oliver's Army
Armed Forces 		UK2 (12 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
Accidents Will Happen
Armed Forces 		UK28 (8 weeks)
UK 		-
1980 I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
Get Happy 		UK4 (8 weeks)
UK 		-
Hi Fidelity
Get Happy 		UK30 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
New Amsterdam
Get Happy 		UK36 (6 weeks)
UK 		-
Clubland
Trust 		UK60 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
1981 A Good Year for the Roses
Almost Blue 		UK6 (11 weeks)
UK 		-
Sweet Dreams
Almost Blue 		UK42 (8 weeks)
UK 		-
1982 I'm Your Toy
Almost Blue 		UK51 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
Your Little Fool
Imperial Bedroom 		UK52 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
Man Out of Time
Imperial Bedroom 		UK58 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
From head to toe UK43 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
Party Party
Party Party (Soundtrack) 		UK48 (6 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
1983 Pills and Soap
Punch the Clock 		UK16 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
as The Imposter
Everyday I Write the Book
Punch the Clock 		UK28 (8 weeks)
UK 		US36 (14 weeks)
US
... and the attractions
Let Them All Talk
Punch the Clock 		UK59 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
1984 Peace in Our Time
Goodbye Cruel World 		UK48 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
as The Imposter
I Wanna Be Loved / Turning the Town Red
Goodbye Cruel World 		UK25 (6 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
The Only Flame in Town
Goodbye Cruel World 		UK71 (4 weeks)
UK 		US56 (9 weeks)
US
... and the Attractions; Guest singer: Daryl Hall
1985 Green Shirt
Goodbye Cruel World 		UK68 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
1986 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
King of America 		UK33 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
as The Costello Show featuring the Confederates
cover version of the Animals hit
Tokyo Storm Warning
Blood and Chocolate 		UK73 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
1989 Veronica
Spike 		UK31 (6 weeks)
UK 		US19 (14 weeks)
US
Co-writer / bass guitar: Paul McCartney
Baby Plays Around (EP)
Spike 		UK65 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
1991 The Other Side of Summer
Mighty Like a Rose 		UK43 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
1994 Sulky Girl
Brutal Youth 		UK22 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
13 Steps Lead Down
Brutal Youth 		UK59 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
You Tripped at Every Step
Brutal Youth 		UK83 (1 week)
UK 		-
London's Brilliant Parade EP
Brutal Youth 		UK48 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
1996 It's Time
All This Useless Beauty 		UK58 (1 week)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
Little Atoms
All This Useless Beauty 		UK87 (1 week)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
The Other End of the Telescope
All This Useless Beauty 		UK86 (1 week)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
All This Useless Beauty
All This Useless Beauty 		UK94 (1 week)
UK 		-
... and the attractions
1999 Toledo
Painted from Memory 		UK72 (1 week)
UK 		-
She
Notting Hill (Soundtrack) 		UK19 (11 weeks)
UK 		-
2002 Tear Off Your Own Head
When I Was Cruel 		UK58 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
45
When I Was Cruel 		UK92 (1 week)
UK 		-

More singles

  • Less Than Zero (1977)
  • Alison (1977, 318th place in the Rolling Stone 500 )
  • (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (1977)
  • (What's so Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding (1979, No. 284 in the Rolling Stone 500)
  • From a Whisper to a Scream (1981)
  • Watch Your Step (1981)
  • The Peoples Limousine (with T Bone Burnett as The Coward Brothers , 1985)
  • Seven Day Weekend (1986)
  • Loveable (1986)
  • I Want You (1986)
  • Blue Chair (1987)
  • A Town Called Big Nothing (1987)
  • This Town ... (1989)
  • So Like Candy (1991)
  • Jacksons, Monk & Rowe (1993)
  • You Tripped at Every Step (1994)
  • Little Atoms (1996)
  • The Other End of the Telescope (1996)
  • Distorted Angel (1996)
  • All This Useless Beauty (1996)
  • You Bowed Down (1996)
  • I Still Have That Other Girl (with Burt Bacharach , Grammy for Pop Vocal Collaboration)
  • Monkey to Man (2004)
  • Brilliant Mistake (2005)
  • No Hiding Place (2008)
  • Go Away (2008)
  • Complicated Shadows (2009)
  • National Ransomware (2010)

literature

  • David Sheppard: Elvis Costello. Hannibal, Höfen 2001, ISBN 3-85445-191-1 .
  • Graeme Thomson: Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello. Canongate Books, Edinburgh 2005, ISBN 1-84195-665-1 .
  • Elvis Costello: Unfaithful music. My life . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-1226-5 .

Chart literature:

Web links

Commons : Elvis Costello  - Collection of Images

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Elvis Presley
  2. ↑ Week in Rock History: Elvis Costello Defies 'Saturday Night Live'. In: Rolling Stone , December 12, 2011
  3. ↑ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Elvis Costello and the Attractions in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  4. ↑ It Is After Considerable Contemplation .... . Elviscostello.com. May 15, 2010. Archived from the original on February 14, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ Culture boycott. The BDS movement in Israel , 3sat . October 1, 2010. Retrieved January 16, 2011. 
  6. ↑ The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook !!! (Album) on Allmusic
  7. ↑ rollingstone.de: Elvis Costello: diagnosis of “aggressive” cancer forces him to stop the tour
  8. ↑ independent.co.uk: Goodbye, cruel UK: Elvis Costello turns his back on his native land
  9. ^ The Elvis Costello Limited-Signature on gibson.com , accessed May 11, 2012
  10. ↑ Internet Movie Database Two and a Half Men, Season 2 Episode 1: Back Off Mary Poppins (2004)
  11. ↑ 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  12. ↑ The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Rolling Stone , August 2015, accessed August 7, 2017 .
  13. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK1 (Elvis Costello) UK2 (Imposter) US US 2
  14. ↑ Sources for awards: UK US
  15. ↑ This Year's Model (album) on Allmusic
  16. ↑ Taking Liberties (album) on Allmusic
personal data
SURNAME Costello, Elvis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES MacManus, Declan Patrick (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH London