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| | CostelloNews.com |
 | | Although Costello's fingerprints are heavy on the album, it is at its core a New Orleans soul record, with Toussaint's distinct style as its bedrock. | | | Costello has said that the album follows the template of old songbook records, which were common projects when it was rare for performers to write their own songs. | | | Elvis Costello and New Orleans music legend Allen Toussaint treated a select few to an enthralling 40-minute showcase on Tuesday night in Toronto. |
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| | The Elvis Costello Home Page - Biography |
| | Costello also submitted three songs to Phil Collins who was slated to produce Frida’s (of Abba) first solo album. | | | In 2005, the only new Elvis album was "Piano Jazz" with Marian McPartland, from a session Elvis did with her for NPR in 2003. | | | In the meantime another Elvis Costello album was released in January 2006. |
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| | Bright Blue Times: The Music Of Elvis Costello |
| | Costello's 2003 opus is a lush, orchestral affair, a collection of subtle and emotional songs with nary a guitar solo in sight. | | | Costello's first solo album since 1996, this "rowdy rhythm record" is a musical bolt of lightening following the tender ballads of previous years. | | | Songs of heartbreak lead to songs of love in what may be Costello's most personally revealing album ever... |
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| | MTV Music Elvis Costello - Profile and Biography |
| | When Elvis Costello's first record was released in 1977, his bristling cynicism and anger linked him with the punk and new wave explosion. | | | Costello was relatively inactive during 1985, releasing only one new single ("The People's Limousine," a collaboration with singer/songwriter T-Bone Burnett released under the name the Coward Brothers) and producing Rum Sodomy and the Lash, the second album by the punk-folk band the Pogues. | | | Riviera signed Costello to Stiff as a solo artist in 1977; the singer/songwriter adopted the name Elvis Costello at this time, taking his first name from Elvis Presley and his last name from his mother's maiden name. |
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| | Presley vs Costello - Advantage: Elvis! |
| | For starters, Costello rates as one of the dozen or so best songwriters in the rock music tradition, where Presley wasn't a songwriter at all. | | | Costello's rockabilly song is just much better written, more memorable and witty than most of Elvis' Sun songs. | | | For example, one Costello song that distinctly lost points in my Elvis mix has been "God's Comic." Now, Costello wrote a classic song with a catchy and distinctive melody, exceptionally witty lyrics, and a totally unique sound from anything else in the history of recorded music. |
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http://www.morethings.com/music/elvis/presley_vs_costello-advantage_elvis.htm
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| | umusic.ca :: elvis costello |
| | Costello was given the opportunity to perform at two benefit concerts with the great New Orleans piano player, songwriter and producer, Allen Toussaint, &; | | | Elvis Costello and the Imposters made their South American concert debut in October 2005 with appearances in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires and had planned to record again in the spring of '06. | | | Costello's songs have been recorded by a great number of artistes. |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Costello to tour with orchestras |
| | In 2004, Costello recorded Il Sogno with the London Symphony Orchestra and released the music as a 24-track album. | | | Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello is teaming up with American symphony orchestras for a US concert tour. | | | Costello released his classical work as a 24-track album in 2004 |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4592566.stm
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| | Elvis Costello Online - An Audience With The Pope |
| | The next shows Elvis turning to the band and yelling "Stop" and the one after shows Elvis announcing to the audience that the song is "not relevant". | | | After writing "Elvis Goes to the Movies" I knew that I had to devote some time to Elvis' TV appearances. | | | In a future audience I will discuss Elvis' first ever appearance playing one of his songs on TV, a solo performance of "Alison" from UK show "What's On" which was taped around April or May 1977 and broadcast on July 21, 1977 (prior to the release of "My Aim Is True"). |
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http://www.ecostello.com/audience/990906.shtml
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| | Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True: Pitchfork Review |
| | With poppy ooh's, a catchy melody, and an undeniably sharp edge, the song excellently captures the cyanide-laced slab of peanut brittle that is Elvis. | | | When Elvis sweetly intones, "My aim is true," he could as easily be alluding to shooting his ex-lover as trying to win her back. | | | Elvis' nerdy whine sounds wonderfully displaced amidst the heavy bass and syncopated drumming, and perfectly ties up the vague themes of love and murder running through the record. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/costello_elvis/my-aim-is-true.shtml
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| | Elvis Costello |
| | Elvis has managed to do something most early '80s pop stars have not: mature musically. | | | Never flashy or overstated, Elvis gained attention with his song writing, energy and sincerity. | | | His music career was rocky at first, being branded a punk (along with everyone else in mid-'70s London), and then a racist for comments made in a drunken brawl during a US tour. |
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http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/elviscostello.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Delivery Man: Music |
| | See Elvis Costello's favourite albums in his Amazon.co.uk guest edit. | | | After releasing numerous albums since 1977's 'My Aim Is True' Elvis Costello returns this time backed by The Imposters.Written as a musical theatre piece, the album features guest appearances from Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris. | | | Piano Jazz; Audio CD ~ Elvis Costello and Marian McPartland |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002W2KPY
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| | Elvis Costello music : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY |
| | Costello's partnership with another '60s songwriting great, Burt Bacharach, produced an album's worth of instant-classic torch songs. | | | Among the tastiest fruits of Costello's brief songwriting partnership with the ex-Beatle: the cascading melody of ''Veronica,'' which manages to be supremely bouncy while telling the tale of a senile woman. | | | In honor of Costello's two new albums (the rock CD Delivery Man and the orchestral Il Sogno), here are 10 reasons to hope this Elvis won't leave the building anytime soon. |
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http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,700956_4_0_,00.html
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| | Elvis Costello Online - Elvis Costello's Unofficial Home |
| | Elvis Costello has completed a new album to be released in September by Deutsche Grammophon, the classical division of Universal Music. | | | EC fan Krup sends word of a couple of very interesting video clips of Elvis performing Scarlet Tide on the Today Show with Emmylou Harris and Freedom for the Stallion with Allen Toussaint at Lincoln Center. | | | Working in New York in April and May, Kevin Killen and Costello co-produced the record, which swings from spare solo piano to lavish arrangements for a forty-eight piece ensemble that included a nine-piece horn section and a twenty-eight-piece string section. |
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| | Elvis Costello |
| | Costello's first and best attempt at a concept album, with most of the lyrics mixing military metaphors and romantic nihilism. | | | Costello's mastery of dynamics, melody, and arrangement had reached a peak, and there isn't one loser in the whole pile of eleven songs. | | | Costello now got bored with his literate punk rock formula and abruptly switched gears for an entire album of country-western cover tunes produced by Nashville sleeze-meister Billy Sherrill. |
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| | TrouserPress.com :: Elvis Costello |
| | Elvis gained confidence from the addition of an outstanding permanent backing band: Bruce Thomas on bass, Pete Thomas (no relation) on drums and Steve Nieve, whose piano and organ, rather than Elvis' guitar, generally fill in melodies. | | | marks the beginning of Elvis' concerted stylistic fiddling and his first serious attempt to shift the emphasis to the music and away from the overpowering persona. | | | The sound often recalls the Band in its unique blending of country and urban traditions; elsewhere, it's latter-day Elvis Presley, played by his own musicians; on the monumental "Suit of Lights," it's the Attractions. |
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| | Elvis Costello >> Aversion.com |
| | Costello's early work, originally viewed as punk because his emergence onto the music scene coincided with the genre's rise, would prefigure indie pop acts and serve as an inspiration for many later indie rockers such as the Posies and the Smiths. | | | With a continually developing sound, Elvis Costello's sound ranges from the classic pop sounds of his early albums to adult-oriented rock, utilizing string quartets and other nontraditional instrumentation. | | | Anne Sofie Von Otter meets Elvis Costello: For the Stars |
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| | Rolling Stone : Elvis Costello Gets Classical |
| | Elvis Costello and longtime keyboardist Steve Nieve are set to team up with various symphonies across the U.S., beginning with the San Francisco Symphony on March 27th, for a string of dates. | | | In addition, Elvis Costello is set to release My Flame Burns Blue, a live CD featuring the fifty-two-piece Dutch jazz orchestra Metropole Orkest in concert at the Hague, the Netherlands, on February 28th. | | | Costello and Nieve will collaborate with the Houston Symphony, the Boston Pops and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, among others, and the tour's opening night will benefit the San Francisco Symphony musicians' pension fund. |
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| | Metroactive Music Elvis Costello |
| | On his newest album, Elvis Costello forgets to rock | | | Similarly, on the title track, Costello and company confuse artifice with artfulness. | | | Take the first cut, "The Other End of the Telescope." While Elvis displays the vocal agility he's acquired over the last few years, the song itself suffers from too much restraint on the musical end. |
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| | Elvis Costello |
| | Brilliant Mistake: Elvis Costello- Elvis's lyrics, artfully arranged with quotes about each song. | | | The Elvis Costello Home Page- This is, without question, the definitive Elvis page. | | | The other photos on the page are from the Elvis Page to End all Elvis Pages to whom I owe all inspirational credit and laurels. |
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| | Elvis Costello Is King- Whether He Admits It Or Not |
| | DVD Review: Elvis Costello and the Imposters - Live in Memphis 2004 | | | He burst onto the music scene in 1977 with the vitriol and determined rage of the current punk rock movement, but he was contrary to that movement in his encyclopedic knowledge of modern pop music. | | | Norah Jones sings Elvis Costello: A modest proposal |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Very Best of Elvis Costello: Music |
| | I rate Costello as one of the greatest songwriters and performers of the last fifty years and almost all of his records offer something special to the listener. | | | For me, the joy of this album is the sheer brilliance of Elvis Costello's songcraft, rivalled only by the very best in the business. | | | This collection takes in tracks from all areas of Costello's career from his first album 'My Aim Is True' (1977) onwards, but focusing mainly on his 1980's hit anthems for which he is best known. |
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| | Salon Brilliant Careers Elvis Costello |
| | The most salient fact about Elvis Costello, in many ways a traditional talent, was that he had the misfortune of coming of age in a most untraditional time. | | | A famous song called "Man out of Time" is this deadly work's scariest musical concoction, a caustically inflamed track of shimmering pianos, cascading melody lines, overwhelming dynamics and unbridled vocals. | | | In other words, Elvis Costello became a star just when the fun was taken out of it. |
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http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/09/21/costello
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| | Why We Love Elvis Costello --- Ink Blot Magazine |
| | We love Elvis because his first backing band was also the backing band for Huey Lewis at the time. | | | We love Elvis because he really meant his songs and didn't care if we didn't know what he was talking about. | | | We love Elvis because we made out with Vicki Zolnikov to "Boy With a Problem." We love Elvis because of that picture on the cover of Rolling Stone. |
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| | Elvis Costello: When I Was Cruel: Pitchfork Review |
| | Costello harnesses some of his Useless Beauty period's greatest strengths-- the wet percussion from Tricky's remix of "Little Atoms," for instance, and the tremolo guitar that dominated "Complicated Shadows"-- to give his new compositions a contemporary edge while anchoring the music to the ragged, rough-edged guitar sound that's been the signature of Costello's best work. | | | The result is an immediately engrossing and challenging collection of moody, evocative songs-- an entire album of "I Want You" and "Watching the Detectives" for those so inclined. | | | The measured swells of backwards guitar and deep bass hits on closer "Radio Silence" send When I Was Cruel out on an optimistic note-- for the future of music and for Costello's own relevance in the post-modern blipscape of Kid A and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. |
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| | Virgin Radio - Music - Artists - Elvis Costello |
| | Elvis Costello joined Pete Mitchell to talk about his new album, The Delivery Man, and look back at a career spanning nearly 30 years. | | | home > music > artists > elvis costello | | | Virgin Radio - Music - Artists - Elvis Costello |
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| | BBC - Glastonbury 2005 - Elvis Costello |
| | Maybe not as well-known as the Elvis the prolific, and alternatively known as, Declan MacManus has still made his mark on musical history. | | | Somewhat of a chameleon his music career began in punk-fuelled 1977 with his Stiff label debut 'My Aim Is True'. | | | absolutley a slacker compared to the real Elvis PS... |
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| | Elvis Costello |
| | Find where Elvis Costello is credited alongside another name | | | The Right Spectacle: The Very Best of Elvis Costello - The Videos (2005) (V) De-Lovely (2004).... | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Elvis Costello |
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| | Elvis Costello - Fanscape |
| | Grammy-winning artist and legendary songwriter Elvis Costello returns with My Flame Burns Blue, an exciting new album that sees Elvis reinventing his classic songs, such as Clubland, Watching The Detectives and Almost Blue. | | | My Flame Burns Blue comes bundled with a bonus disc that features the London Orchestra performing Elvis's symphonic masterpiece, Il Sogno. | | | My Flame Burns Blue - new album in stores NOW! |
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| | Elvis Costello Mystery Cover |
| | Elsewhere on the web: Elvis Costello cover downloads | | | Peace, Love and Understanding (live 2001 San Francisco) |
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| | Elvis Costello - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | The Right Spectacle: The Very Best of Elvis Costello | | | Elvis Costello - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links | | | Browse artists: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # |
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