Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

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Publisher Description

The perfect gift for music lovers and Elvis Costello fans, telling the story behind Elvis Costello’s legendary career and his iconic, beloved songs. 

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
 provides readers with a master’s catalogue of a lifetime of great music. Costello reveals the process behind writing and recording legendary albums like My Aim Is TrueThis Year’s ModelArmed ForcesAlmost BlueImperial Bedroom, and King of America. He tells the detailed stories, experiences, and emotions behind such beloved songs as “Alison,” “Accidents Will Happen,” “Watching the Detectives,” “Oliver’s Army,” “Welcome to the Working Week,” “Radio Radio,” “Shipbuilding,” and “Veronica,” the last of which is one of a number of songs revealed to connect to the lives of the previous generations of his family.

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. He takes readers behind the scenes of Top of the Pops and Saturday Night Live, and his own show, Spectacle, on which he hosted artists such as Lou Reed, Elton John, Levon Helm, Jesse Winchester, Bruce Springsteen, and President Bill Clinton. 

The idiosyncratic memoir of a singular man, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is destined to be a classic.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2015
October 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
688
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
109.8
MB

Customer Reviews

kismet2 ,

jim faith, producer: great South Bay music fest

one of the most beautifully written auto bios I've ever read.
and I've read hundreds, from a music business perspective.
honest, intelligent, and self deprecating...
great to be allowed a peak behind the scenes of this mans commitment to understanding music history, structure and the very "why" it colors our lives, instead of the Hollywood sex, drugs and R&R approach.
and what a body of work!
I always "liked", I am now a huge fan!
thanks for sharing.

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