Elvis Costello

Broschiertes Buch

Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink

Beschreibung

Born Declan Patrick MacManus, 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. This book describes how his career has somehow endured for almost four decades through a combination of dumb luck and animal cunning.

Autor

Elvis Costello has written and recorded legendary albums including My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Imperial Bedroom, and King of America, and songs including "Alison", "Watching the Detectives", "Oliver's Army", "Almost Blue", "Shipbuilding", "I Want You", "Tramp the Dirt Down" and "Jimmie Standing In The Rain". He has collaborated with The Attractions, Paul McCartney, the Brodsky Quartet, Burt Bacharach, Allen Toussaint and The Roots, and has written songs for George Jones, Chet Baker, Solomon Burke and Johnny Cash. He has enjoyed the acclaim and the infamy that comes with a forty-year career in show business.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin / Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780241968123
• ISBN-10: 0241968127
• Artikelnr.: 43692726

Rezensionen

The book is fantastic - maybe the best about music by a musician that I've read....The stuff about the collaborations alone - McCartney, Burt Bacharach, Allen Toussaint, the Roots, the Brodsky Quartet - is riveting Nick Hornby